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From the Tower of Brooklyn Bridge. 

Contents. 

See full index in back 



New York Skyscrapers 9 

Battery Park 23 

The Statue of Liberty 28 

Custom House 30 

Bowling Green 32 

The Produce Exchange 33 

Trinity Church 34 

Wall Street 40 

St. Paul's Chapel 47 

City Hall Park 50 

New York and Brooklyn Bridges 57 

Grace Church 61 

Union Square 63 

Madison Square 64 

The Appellate Court House 71 

The Madison Square Garden 72 

Fifth Avenue 72 

Central Park 84 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 91 

Grand Central Terminal 98 

Herald and Times Squares loi 

Riverside Drive 102 

Grant's Tomb 104 

Morningside Heights 107 

Bronx Park 115 

Van Cortlandt Park 116 

The Subway , 117 

Tunnels !..... 119 

Here and There in New York 121 

Ready Reference Guide 126 

Street Dubctoiy ^ .. .. ^ 134 




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DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN FROM THE EAST RIVER. 



New York the Metropolis. 



The City of New York is the most marvelous exemplification 
of those traits of the American people which have made the 
United States of to-day. Interest in New York does not lie in 
the mere magnitude of the city, but is found rather in the bound- 
less enterprise, the bold conception and the amazing achieve- 
ment, which have reared the mighty fabric of the Metropolis. 
The theme is one which might well challenge the pen of him 
who would celebrate the America of the beginning of the 
Twentieth Century. 

In describing New York, none other than the superlatives will 
suffice. It is in area the largest city in the world, and in popu- 
lation is exceeded only by one. The boroughs arc linked to- 
gether with the greatest of suspension bridges, and pierced 
throughout their length and breadth by the most extensive of 
subway systems. Broadway extending from the Battery north 
to Yonkers is the longest street in the world. The system of 
parks is the largest and costliest — in extent and in the sums de- 



8 NEW YORK, 

voted to maintain them unapproached in America or Europe. 
The g:ig^antic office buildings of the business districts are among 
the modern wonders of the world ; there are none to compare 
with them; their foundations are sunk deeper toward the center 
of the earth, their summits are uplifted higher toward the 
heavens. The largest steamships afloat make New York their 
port, and from the deck of the incoming ship the world-traveler 
beholds the towering bulk of Manhattan with amazement. The 
superb mansions of upper Fifth Avenue and Riverside Drive 
are among the most luxurious of the dwellings of man, as these 
streets are the grandest of residential avenues. The city's hotels 
and apartment houses are peerless in size and appointment; and 
each year witness their development, story added to story, luxury 
to luxury, magnificence to magnificence. The building opera- 
tions characteristic of the day are audacious in their magnitude 
and in the engineering problem they involve. Municipal enter- 
prises are unrivalled in scope and cost — the Catskill Mountain 
water system under construction at a cost of $176,000,000 and 
the new subway railroad system involving an expenditure of 
$300,000,000 are likely to hold the world's records for genera- 
tions to come, and then to be exceeded only by some new and 
more daring project conceived here on Manhattan Island. 

The statistics which express the activities of the Metropolis 
are in figures which are incomprehensible. The Post Office 
handles an average of 10,000,000 pieces of mail matter every 
twenty-four hours, and the city contributes $12,000,000 annually 
to the postal revenues. The surface cars carry 452,000,000 pas- 
sengers in a year. On the floor of the New York Stock Ex- 
change, more than 3,000,000 shares of stock have changed hands 
in a single day. The banks of New York lead the world in 
volume of clearings. New York is the financial center of the 
world. 

Great and surpassing as the city is, each year adds to its 
material greatness and commanding influence. In the following 
pages are described some of the more conspicuous features of 
the growing and expanding New York of the present, the 
Metropolis of America, from which is emerging that city of the 
future which shall be the Metropolis of the World. 



New York Skyscrapers. 

When we approach New York by river or bay, we 8ce in the view oi 

the high buildings of Manhattan Island a picture which has no parallel 
in the cities of the world. Our first impression of the height and 
magnitude of these architectural marvels is strengthened as we wander 
through the downtown streets, and passing from one shadowy cafion 
into another make our way between the tremendous cliffs. The sky- 
scrapers of New York constitute one of the most impressive and in- 
teresting features of the city. 

The high building is distinctly a modern and wholly American crea- 
tion. It has grown out of the concentration of business and the ever- 
insistent demand for business office room in the closely congested busi- 
ness centers. The skyscraper provides business opportunity for a 
thousand, two thousand, ten thousand, where without it there would 
be room only for as many hundreds. Two factors have made it possible 
— the passenger elevator, which gives immediate access to the upper 
stories, and the steel cage system of construction, which enables the 
architect to design his building to any desired height. The steel cage 
is a framework of steel beams, bolted together with hot rivets. In 
effect it is a bridge set on end. The walls are simply weather shields, 
fastened to it. Under the old system the walls supported the floors; in 
the new buildings, the walls serve merely as curtains to shut out the 
weather, and are themselves supported by girders which project at the 
levels of the floors. The steel frame goes up first, and the walls are 
put on afterward; sometimes the upper stories are walled in before 
the lower ones. Under the old system of supporting walls, buildings 
were limited to eight or ten stories; the steel cage goes up twenty 
and fifty stories, and the architects tell us that there are no mechanical 
obstacles to buildings of loo stories. With steel beams and steel ceiling 
arches, concrete floors and stone and metal stairways, the structures 
are considered to be fireproof. 

Wonderful as the high buildings appear to us as we see them towering 
in the air, some of the greatest engineering achievements in their con- 
struction are below the ground, in the foundations contrived to sustain 
the prodigious superstructures. The foundations go down to bedrock, 
in some instances more than lOO feet below the surface. As the archi- 
tect went to the bridge engineer to build his steel cage, so he has adopted 
the bridge engineer's pneumatic caisson system of pier sinking. The 
caisson for high building foundation work was first adopted in the 
Manhattan Life Insurance BuildiKg, on Broadway, near Exchange 
Place, in 1894. The weight of the structure was calculated at 21,600 
tons; the pressure exerted upon the foundation by the force of the 
wind acting upon the sides of the building and tending to overturn it 

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SKYSCRAPER FOUNDATIONS. 



was calculated at 2,400 tons; and 
the weight of the furniture and 
the human beings who would 
occupy it was reckoned at 7,000 
tons more — making a total weight 
of 31,000 tons, or 62,000,000 pounds 
to be carried by the foundations. 
To provide a foundation that 
would sustain this immense weight, 
the architects sunk their caissons 
down to bedrock, 55 feet below the 
surface. As each caisson descend- 
ed, a brick pier was built up on 
it. When bedrock was reached, 
the rock was leveled inside the 
caisson, and the chamber was filled 
with concrete, so that caisson and 
masonry formed one solid pier 
resting on bedrock and rising to 
the surface of the ground. There 
were fifteen of these great piers, 
and their cost was nearly $150,000 
The Manhattan Life Building has 
eighteen stories, and is 350 feet in 
height from the sidewalk. The 
plot, fronting 67 feet on Broad- 
way, cost $1,500,000, and the build- 
ing itself $1,500,000. . ;g , 

The foundation of the American 
Surety Building, at Broadway and 
Pine street, were sunk in the same 
way to bedrock 79 feet down. Our 
illustration, from the Scientific 
American, shows the caissons rest 
ing on the bedrock, the; piers on 
the caissons, and the columns on 
the piers. Here, too, is an ingeni- 
ous cantilever device, which may 
be seen in the right-hand pier, 
for distributing toward the center 
a portion of the weight of the 
outer walls. The plot of land, 85 
feet square, cost $1,350,000; a por- 
tion of it, that on the corner, cost 
%267.67 a square foot (or at the 
rate of over eleven and one-half 
million dollars an acre). This 
was the record price for Broad- 
way real estate until the plot on 



the south corner of Broadway and Wall 
street was sold in 1906 at the price of 
$576 a square foot. The American Surety 
has twenty-one stories, with a height of 
308 feet. The statues on the front are 
by J. Massey Rhind. There is, by the 
way, a curious circumstance in relation 
to the cornice, which at the height of 308 
feet projects beyond the building line and 
trespasses upon the air space which be- 
longs to the Schermerhorn Building next 
door. When the trespass was discovered, 
the Astors, who own the Schermerhorn, 
threatened to put up a skyscraper, which 
would of course cut off the south light 
and air of the American Surety Build- 
ing; the matter was adjusted by the 
American Surety Company taking a 
ninety-nine years' lease of the Schermer- 
horn Building at $75,000 a year. 

An office building is a city in itself, 
with its railway in the elevators, its water 
system, fire extinguishing apparatus on 
every floor, light, heat and power plants, 
postoffice and telegraph office, uniformed 
police force, restaurant, shops and a popu- 
lation running into the thousands The 
tenant may supply 
his manifold wants 
without going from 
under the roof. He 
has at command 
telegraph.telephone 
and messenger ser- 
vice, and mails his 
letters in the mail 
chute, which ex- 
tends through all 
the floors, carrying 
the letters to the 

mail box at the bot- 
tom, where the mail 
is collected by the 
postmen. He may 
lunch in the restau- 
rant on one floor, 
take out a life in- 
surance policy on 
another, cash his 
checks at his bank 
on a third and put 

his valuables in safe- 




THE PARK ROW BUILDING. 



12 NEW YORK. 

deposit in the basement. He may consult his physician, his broker or 
his lawyer; visit his tailor, shoeblack, barber and manicurist; and buy 
his cigars, papers, theater tickets, and flowers and a box of candy for 
his best girl. In some buildings each individual office has a fireproof 
safe; in the Vincent lawyer tenants have access to a law library main- 
tained by the building. Many of the buildings are open day and night 
every day in the year. The cost of maintenance of the largest buildings 
approximates $100,000 a year. The single item of water supply 
amounts to $5,000. The Manhattan Life has an artesian well, and the 
Metropolitan Life draws water from a stream which was once an open 
brook from Madison Square to the East River, and, being covered up, 
still flows. 

Some of the halls are arcades, with telegraph and messenger offices, 
news stands, flower stands, and confectionery counters about which 
the typewriters flock at noon time like so many butterflies. The hall 
of the Empire Building constitutes the approach from Broadway to 
the Rector street station of the elevated railroad, and hundreds of 
thousands of people pass through it every day; it is lined with shops 
and is a veritable city street. 

The elevators in the high buildings are divided into local, which stop 
at every floor, and express, which stop only above certain stories. A 
fine illustration of the spirit of hurry which possesses the average down- 
town New Yorker is the impatience with which he resents a delay of a 
five-second elevator stop before he gets to his own floor. In some 
buildings, as the American Tract Society, there are two sets of 
elevators, one above the other, so that one must change cars to go 
to the top. There are automatic brakes to stop the descent of the 
car in case of accident, and air wells at the bottom of the shaft to 
serve as cushions if the car should fall. The high-speed elevators have 
a possible speed of 500 to 700 feet per minute, and in practice are run 
at 500 to 600 feet. The elevator has been likened to a vertical railroad; 
and when we come to think of it, it is quite as much an achievement of 
mechanical skill to take us straight up smoothly and safely forty stories 
in forty seconds as it is to carry us over the rails at express train speed. 
The highest development of the elevator is the electric, which is 
worked by electric motive power and is controlled from the car entirely 
by electricity. 

In the cellars and subcellars are the electric light, water and steam- 
heating plants and the machinery which runs the elevators — an aston- 
ishing and bewildering maze of furnaces, boilers, steam engines, dyna- 
mos, pumps, pipes and tanks. Under direction of the superintendent 
of the building is a host of employes — uniformed police, elevator con- 
ductors, engineers, sweepers, scrub women and window cleaners. The 
men who clean windows hundreds of feet in the air wear belts with 
straps which are fastened to hooks on the outside of the window, so 
that if one should lose his footing on the window sill he could not fall. 
An interesting illustration of the specialization of industries in a great 
city is offered by the towel supply concerns, which make a business 
of supplying offices w^ith clean towels, soap and other accessories. 



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THI SUKROUNDINGS OF niNITY CHUICH. 
The buildings are, left U rifht: Trinity, Equitable, American Surety, Bankers' 

Trust, No. 1 Wall Street. 



The Standard Oil Building, No. 26 Broadway, is remarkable for an 
engineering expedient for the support of the upper stories. The old 
building had nine stories, and when the addition of six new floors was 
contemplated it was found that the walls would not sustain the increased 
weight. Accordingly the lot adjoining on the north was acquired, and 
on this was erected a steel cage building with a cantilever projecting 
out over the old building, and of sufficient strength to sustain the weight 
of the new floors. The six upper stories, then, which appear to be a 



14 NEW YORK. 

part of the old building and to rest upon its walls, are really, so far as 
support is concerned, quite independent of it. The steel cage con- 
struction has been likened to a bridge; here we have a Broadway office 
building which is in effect a cantilever bridge. 

The construction of the $2,500,000 annex of the Mutual Life Insuk- 
ANCE Company's Building at Liberty, Nassau and Cedar streets involved 
among other engineering feats the underpinning of an 18-story building 
adjoining, in which were a safety deposit company's safes and vaults, 
the working of the: locks of which would have been ' stopped by. * 
settlement of the sixteenth of an inch. The caissons of the annex rest 
on bedrock 100 feet below the surface. The cellar floor is 55 feet below 
the sidewalk, and 35 feet below the line of standing water. 

Famous among New York skyscrapers is the Singer Building, at 
Broadway and Liberty street. It is forty-seven stories above the side- 
walk, with pinnacle 612 Jcet in air. The tower shows on each side an 
immense bay window, extending from the fourteenth to the thirty- 
fourth story, each capped with an arch supporting a semi-circular 
balcony. The roof ofc-the tower, of curved mansard type, includes three 
stories, the whole surmounted by a huge cdppei; lantern. From the 
roof of the main building searchlights of the United States naval stand- 
ard are directed against the facades of the tower, making it visible at 
night in bold relief for over twenty miles. The lantern crowning the 
tower contains a powerful searchlight, the rays of which may be seen 
from a distance of sixty to seventy-five miles. Further exterior illumi- 
nation of the tower is accomplished by means jpif concealed incandescent 
lights. ■«"^--- 

The Singer Building is a house founded on a rock. The weight of 
the vast structure, which is 90,000 tons, is supported upon caissons of 
solid concrete, resting on the bedrock 92 feet below the curb. A novel 
feature of the construction is the provision of a system of "wind 
anchors," to withstand the tremendous wind pressure to which the build- 
ing is subjected during a gale. Assuming a wind pressure of 30 pounds 
per square foot, distributed uniformly over the face of the building, 
the engineers calculated the total overturning moment of the wind to 
be 128,000 foot-tons, a force which would give the building a tendency 
to lift on the windward side. To provide against this lift, a set of big 
steel rods was devised, running down fifty feet into the concrete piers 
on which the building rests, and thus securely anchoring it to the foun- 
dation. 

Some details of the building are: Height from sidewalk to top of 
lantern, 612 feet; basement floor to top of flagstaff, 724 feet. Forty- 
nine stories; gl4 acres of floor space; 15 miles of steam and water pip- 
ing; 15,000 incandescent lamps. Not a cubic inch, of wood is used in 
the construction or finish. The elevators rise 41 stories in one minute; 
express elevators 30 stories in 30 seconds. 

Adjoining the Singer Building is the City Investing Bunj^NG; thirty 
stories in height, with roof 418 feet above the curb, and caisson founda- 
tions 80 feet below the surface. The amount invested in land and build- 



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BROADWAY AND WALL STREBT. 

ing exceeds $10,000,000. It is interesting to note that long before the 
foundation caissons were sunk, two eiitire floors' of the building had 
been leased to a corporation for a term of ten years at an aggregate 
value of $1,000,000. " . ,.. — 

The Trinity Building (310 feet in height), overlooking Trinity Churcli- 
yard, has the advantage of a position which gives the T^^ast Gothic facade 
peculiar impressivehess. Adjoining is the United States Realty Build- 
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and the combined floor space is 552,873 square feet, an area which if 
one floor would cover seven blocks the size of the Madison Square 
Garden. The foundation caissons rest on bedrock 80 feet below the 
sidewalk. The two buildings with the land cost $15,000,000. 

No. I Wall Street,. the eighteen-story office building, on the south- 
east corner of Wall street and Broadway, stands on a plot 30 x 30 feet, 
which was bought in 1906 for $654,456, or $576 per square foot, or $4 
per square inch. The first floor and basement, 28x28 feet, rent for 
$40,000 a year. 

The Exchange Building, 36 to 42 Broadway, one of the largest in the 
city, is of twenty stories, fronts 116 feet on Broadway and 115 on New 
street, and has 350,000 square feet of rental space. The cost, including 
site, was $5,000,000. Another building of immense proportions is the 
twenty-two-story $3,500,000 home of the Bank of the State of New 
York, at Exchange Place and William street. Adjoining it is the eigh- 
teen-story building of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. The 
Hanover Bank Building, at Nassau and Pine streets, of twenty-three 
stories. 380 feet, is architecturally one of the most pretentious of the 
office buildings. The upper part is decorated with a series of Greek 
columns surrounded with an elaborate cornice, and the rounded edges 
give it the effect of a campanile. The intersection of Nassau and Pine 
streets is a banking and insurance center and the land is extremely 



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hattan Life. West St. Equitable. Bankers' Trast. Bowling Green- 

Am. Surety. Adams Exp. Standard Oil. Whitehall. 

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valuable; the Hanover Bank site cost $22.^.30 a square foot, and the 
northwest corner opposite was bought by the Equitable in 1896 for 
$250 a square foot. 

The Broad Exchange Building, at Broad street and Exchange Place, 
fronting 236 feet on Exchange Place and 106 feet on Broad street, with 
a wing of 100 feet to Beaver street, has an area of 27,000 square feet 
to each of the twenty stories. There are forty offices on a floor, reached 
by eighteen elevators. The cost of building and site was $7,500,000. 

The twin domes of the twenty-one-story Commercial Cable Building 
on Broad street rise 317 feet above the curb, and the foundations go 
down 106 feet below the surface. The floor of the engineer's room is 
40 feet below the sidewalk. The letter carriers deliver mail to 3-300 
people in the building, and the elevators carry 25,000 passengers a day. 

The Park Row Building, on Park Row, facing the Post-Office, has 
thirty-one stories, with a height from sidewalk to cornice of 336 feet; 
to top of towers 300 feet: to top of flapstafl^ 447 feet: depth of founda- 
tion below street line, 75 feet; total height from foundation to flagstaff 
truck 552 feet. The weight of 20,000 tons or 40,000,000 pounds is carried 
on 4,000 piles driven into the sand 40 feet down to bedrock. The cost 
of building and land was $4,000,000. There are 050 offices. 2.080 win- 
dows, 1,770 doors. 7 500 electric lights and 3,500 tenants. As shown by 
a count for a week (six days of ten hours each), the ten elevator cars 




bankers' trust and equitablb buildings. 

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travel 16.38 miles an hour, and carry up an average of 814 persons an 
hour, or 8,140 a day, or 48,860 a week. 

The Park Row owners tell us that the building stands so firm that in 
the highest gales a plumb line test fails to show the slightest tremor of 
the structure. All the skyscrapers are braced to withstand wind pres- 
sures; in some of them vibration is perceptible in a storm, but as with 



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SINGER BUILDTNG. 
Forty-seven stories. Height, 612 feet. 



20 NEW YORK, 

bridges, this is not regarded as an indication of weakness. A pendulum 
clock on the top tloor of the American Surety has been stopped by the 
vibration of the building in a storm; and the vibration of che top floors 
in a twenty-story building has been sufficient to move the water in a 
bowl. 

The Hudson Terminal Building, on Church street, between Fulton 
and Cortland, is the terminal of the Hudson River tunnels to Jersey 
City, and the nucleus of all the underground railway systems that con- 
verge under lower Manhattan. The twenty-two stories have 4,000 
offices, with an estimated population of 10,000. The building occupies 
70,000 square feet of ground. The cubic areas are 14,500,000 cubic feet 
above ground, 3,650,000 cubic feet below ground, or a total of 18,150,000 
cubic feet. Here are some of the official figures that give an idea of 
the amount of material necessary in the construction. To build the 
walls above the curb 16,300,000 bricks were necessary; there are 1,300,000 
square feet of tile partitions, 5,200 doors, 5,000 windows, and a total glass 
area of 120,000 square feet ; 500,000 square yards of plastering, 16 miles 
of plumbing pipe, 29 miles of steam pipe, 56 miles of woodbase, 65 miles 
of picture moulding, 95 miles of conduits, 113 miles of electric wiring, 
and 30,000 electric lights. Special features of the building are perhaps 
the largest electric storage battery in the world, and an arcade which is 
a great glass-inclosed oassageway, lined with shops and booths. It is 
larger than any of the famous European arcades. 

The highest achievement in New York skyscrapers is the Woolworth 
Building, which occupies the entire block front on Broadway from Park 
Place to Barclay street. It has fifty-five stories and rises to a height 
of 793H feet above the Barclay street entrance. It is the highest in- 
habited building in the world. 

The Equitable Building, occupying the block bounded by Broad- 
way, Cedar, Nassau and Pine streets, is the largest office building in 
the world. It is 545 feet in height above grade, has forty stories above 
ground and three below, with a renting area of 1,200,000 square feet 
There are 59 elevators, 2,300 offices, and room for 15,000 people. 

A curious effect of the skyscrapers is the influence the mass of steel 
in their frames has on the compasses of the shipping in the harbor. 
Commanders of steamers at Hoboken say their compasses show a dif- 
ference of as much as seven degrees in leaving their docks, which 
lessens as they get down the bay, but some pilots assert that the varia- 
tion is notable as far out as the turn in the Gedney Channel. 




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Battery Park. 



Battery Park forms the southern termination of Manhattan Island. 
It is reached by all the elevated roads and by the Broadway, Sixth 
avenue, Eighth avenue and Belt lines, and by the Subway. 

The distinguishing feature of the Battery is the sea wall along the 
water front, which affords an admirable view of New York Harbor. 
Here the North (or Hudson) and East rivers join their currents, and 
the outlook is south over the Upper Bay. On the right across the North 
River is Jersey City, with the New Jersey shore stretching away to 
where the Standard Oil refineries send up their perpetual columns of 
smoke. In the middle distance, five miles away, rise the wooded slopes 
of Staten Island. Near at hand, on the left, is Governor's Island, and 
on the extreme left, across the East River, is Brooklyn with its ware 
houses and church steeples. The Narrows, seven miles distant, are in 
line with Governor's Island, which shuts off the view of them. 

The Statue of Liberty, on Liberty Island, is a conspicuous object. To 
the right of it on Ellis Island are the large buildings of the Immigration 
Depot. The fort on the point of Governor's Island is Castle Williams. 
If our visit is so timed, we may see the flash of its sunset gun, followed 
by the kindling of Liberty's torch and the blink of the revolving light 
on Robbins Reef, off Staten Island. But at whatever hour we stand 
here, the scene is. one of interest. Nowhere else in New York may we 
have such a diversified and animated marine picture. There are gigantic 
European steamships moving majestically to their piers, coastwise 
steamers and Sound boats, excursion boats — if it be summer — with picnic 
barges and floating hospitals; ferryboats, lighters, freight car floats, long 
tows of canal boats bound up the Hudson, grotesque floating derricks and 
grain elevators, noisy tugs with tows and noisier ones without, revenue 
cutters, smart steam yachts and perhaps a war vessel, with sailing craft 
and naphtha launches — all these coming and going and forming a marine 
medley, with kaleido:ropic effects, ever full of motion, forever changing, 
and a scene to stir the imagination. Here we are looking upon one of 
the most magnificent liarbors in the world, whose sunsets challenge the 
artist's brush, and whose activities are significant of New York's com- 
mercial supremacy of the Western Hemisphere. 

Telling the same story, beyond the Park rise the tower of the Produce 
Exchange and the lofty office buildings, which are the beginning of that 
succession of skyscrapers for which New York is famous. Near by on 
State street are seen the Chesebrough and Battery Park buildings; where 
Broadway begins is the Washington, with the Bowling Green overtopping 
it, and beyond is the Empire; on the right is the Standard Oil. 

The Aquarium, near the sea wall in the southwest of the Park, is 
open daily from 9 to 5, admission free. It contains large collections of 
fishes and marine life. The large floor tanks are devoted to seals, sea 
lions, sturgeon and other large species; and the too wall tanks contain 
fr.csh and salt water fishes. The most striking exhibits are of Bermuda 
angelfish, parrotfish, moonfish and other brilliantly colored species. The 
balanced aquaria tanks on the second floor should not be overlooked. 

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There are shown in all some 3,000 living specimens. The daily supply 
of 300,000 gallons of salt water is furnished from a tidal well beneath 
the building, and there are heating and refrigerating plants to control 
the temperature of fresh and salt water. The Aquarium is maintained 
by the city. It has an average of over 5,000 visitors daily and 10,000 on 
Sundays. On August 20, 1898, the day of the reception of Admiral 
Sampson's fleet, the Aquarium visitors numbered 47,360. 

Castle Garden. — The circular building of the Aquarium was originally 
a fort. Castle Clinton, built for the defense of the city against the British 
in the War of 1812; and the spot where it stands was then an island 200 
feet from the shore. When, in 1822, Congress ceded the property to the 
city, it was converted into a place of amusement, and was named Castle 
Garden. It became the home of opera, and was a place for great public 
gatherings. Here on Lafayette's return to America in 1824, six thousand 
persons assembled to greet him ; and among the others who from time to 
time were given public receptions here were Louis Kossuth, Presidents 
Jackson and Tyler and Van Buren, and the Prince of Wales. Here in 
1835 S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, publicly demonstrated 
by means of a wire coiled about the interior of the Garden, the practi- 
cability of controlling the electric current. Here in 1850 Jenny Lind, the 
Swedish singer, made her American debut, under the management of 
P. T. Barnum; her half of the profits of the first concert being $12,500, 
which sum she donated to the charities of New York, From 1855 to 
1890 Castle Garden was an immigrant bureau, through whose portals 
millions of immigrants entered America The building was opened as 
an aquarium in 1896. 



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THE FIRE BOAT NEW YORKER. 



Near the Aquarium is the station of the fireboat "New Yorker," which 
may be seen at her dock. The city has ten of these boats. They arc 
equipped with powerful machinery and are of tremendous hose capacity 
Their mission is to quell fires in the shipping and on the water front 
Steam is always up and everything is in readiness for instant response 
to the alarm which comes over the wire or is given by rapid, short blasts 
of a steamer's whistle. When the "New Yorker's" siren ansjvers the call 
and the boat starts away, it is something to stir the blood even of one 
to whom a fire engine dashing through city streets is an old story. Just 
beyond the Battery, Pier A, North River, is the headquarters of the 
Harbor Police, with their fast steamers, and patrol launches. 

Near the east end of the sea wall is the landing of the Liberty Statue 
ferry and of various summer excursion steamboats, and others. The 
little boat basin, to which steps lead down, is for the use of the White- 
hall and Battery boatmen who furnish communication with the shipping 
in the harbor. The city provided this basin for the boatmen in recog- 
nition of their heroic conduct at the time (July 30, 1871) when the Staten 
Island ferryboat Westfield blew up as she lay in her slip. Some of these 
Battery boatmen hold records as life savers, having rescued numerous 
persons from drowning off the sea wall. 

The Battery affords an appropriate site for the statue of the famous 
marine engineer, John Ericsson, which stands here. It is of bronze, life 
size, by Hartley, and was erected by the city, as the legend tells us, 
"to the memory of a citizen whose genius has contributed to the great- 
ness of the Republic and to the progress of the world." John Ericsson 
(born in Sweden, 1803, died in New York. 1889) invented the screw or 
propeller as applied to steam navigation in 1836-41. In 1863 he designed 
the turreted ironclad "Monitor," which met the Confederate ram "Merri- 
mac" in Hampton Roads, Va., March 9, 1863, and by its successful per- 
formance revolutionized naval warfare. The "Monitor" is represented 
in one of the panels of the pedestal. 



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Near the high flagstaff in the Park a tablet marks the spot where stood 
the famous Revolutionary liberty pole. When the British evacuated the 
city in 1783, they left their flag flying from this pole, which they had 
greased to prevent climbing it. But an American soldier, David Van 
Arsdale, achieved the feat, climbed the pole, tore down the British banner 
and raised the American flag in its place. From that time to this, 
annually at dawn of Evacuation Day, November 25, some descendant 
of Van Arsdale has hoisted the colors here on the Battery staff. 

The Battery took its name from a battery which was erected here in 
1693 in anticipation of the coming of a French fleet, Great Britain and 
France being then at war. The Park was a favorite promenade in 
Colonial days. At that period and long afterward the vicinity was the 
center of the wealth and fashion of New York; and stately homes 
fronted the Park on the north. One of these old houses yet remains. 
No. 7 State street, now the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary, for 
immigrant girls. 

Just north of the Battery, at the beginning of Broadway, is Bowling 
Green. East of the Battery, at the terminus of the elevated roads, is the 
South Ferry, whence boats ply to Brooklyn and Staten Island. It was 
between the Battery and Staten Island that young Cornelius Vanderbilt 
(afterward the Commodore) sailed and rowed his ferryboat "Dread." 
West of the Battery at Pier i, North River, are the Coney Island boats. 

Governor's Island, which lies a thousand yards off the Battery, is 
Government property, and is the headquarters of the Military Department 
of the Atlantic. Its trees and lawn add to the attractiveness of the harbor. 
The sunset gun is fired from Castle Williams. Other fortifications are 
the antiquated Fort Columbus in the center of the island, and the South 
Battery. There are officers' quarters, occupied by the Commanding 
General and his staff, parade grounds, prison for military prisoners, 
ordnance stores and other usual features of a military establishment. 
Plans are under way to make Governor's Island the chief military post 
of the country. 




CASTLE WILLIAMS. 



The Statue of Liberty. 

The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World is on Bedloe's 
Island, in the Upper Bay, i^ miles from the Battery. It is reached by 
steamboat, which leaves the Battery hourly, on the hour, and returns on 
the half-hour, from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. One may obtain a satisfactory 
view of the exterior and return on the same boat, time from Battery and 
return three-quarters of an hour; if the ascent of the Statue is to be 
made, allow an hour and three-quarters. 

The statue is the work of the eminent French sculptor, Auguste Bar- 
tholdi, who in 1865 conceived the idea of a fitting memorial to be given 
by the French people to the United States in commemoration of the long- 
established good will between the two nations. Coming to America upon 
this mission, Bartholdi was impressed by the eagerness with which the 
emigrants crowded to the rail to gaze upon the shores as the ship came 
up the bay, and his artist's eye recognized in Bedloe's Island the ideal 
site for the projected statue. Here, at the threshold of America, Liberty 
should meet the expectant gaze of the newcomers, and uplift her lighted 
torch before them as an emblem of freedom and opportunity in the new 
world. The situation was well chosen. The colossal figure is an impos- 
ing object as seen not only from steamships coming up the harbor, but 
from ferryboat and bridge and rivers, and the encircling cities and hills 
and plains of New York and New Jersey. 

The statue is justly admired for its majestic proportions and the benevo- 
lent calm of the countenance. It is said that Bartholdi modeled the figure 
from his mother. The tablet bears the date, "July 4> ^77^" The statue 
consists of a shell of repousse copper (sheets of copper hammered into 
shape), riveted together and supported by an interior skeleton of iron, 
which was designed by the French engineer, Eiffel, who built the Eiffel 
Tower. Provision is made for the expansion and contraction caused by 
variations of heat and cold ; and an asbestos packing is employed to insu- 
late the copper from the iron and prevent the corrosion which would 
otherwise be caused by the action of electricity induced by the salt air. 
Holding her flaming torch 305 feet in air, Liberty is the greatest colossus 
in the world, and the pedestal rests securely upon a foundation which is 
a monolith of concrete reputed to be the largest artificial single stone in 
existence. The dimensions arc: 



Ft. In. 



Height from base to torch 151 

Foundation of pedestal to torch.. 305 

Heel to top of head Ill 

Length of hand 16 

Index finger 8 

Circumference at second joint.... 7 

Size of finger nail 13 x 10 in. 

Head from chin to cranium 17 

Head thickness from ear to ear.. 10 

Distance across the eye 2 

Length of nose 4 

Right mrm, length 42 



Ft. In. 

Ri^ht arm, greatest thickness... 12 

Thickness of waist 35 

Width of mouth 3 

Tablet, length 23 7 

Tablet, thickness 2 

Height of pedestal 89 

Square sides at base, each 62 

Square sides at top, each 40 

Grecian columns, above base 72 8 

Height of foundation 65 

Square sides at bottom 91 

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The Custom House. 

In the new Custom House, fronting on Bowling Green, New York 
possesses the largest and most beautiful custom house in the world. The 
building was designed by Cass Gilbert; it is of Maine granite, seven 
stories in height, and cost $4,500,000. It is embellished with a wealth 
of exterior decoration, the motives of which are found in the world- 
wide commerce of the United States, of which seventy-five per cent, 
enters through the port of New York. Dolphin masks, rudders, tridents, 
the caduceus of Mercury, the winged wheel, the conventionalized wave 
and other suggestions are of the sea and ships and transportation. A 
series of forty-four Corinthian columns surrounding the building are 
crowned with capitals from which look out the head of Mercury, ancient 
god of commerce; and in the keystones of the window arches are carved 
heads typical of the eight types of mankind — ^the Caucasian, with acces- 
sory of oak branches; Hindu, lotus leaves; Latin and Celt, grapes; 
Mongol, poppy ; Eskimo, fur hood ; coureur de bois, pine cones ; African. 

Extending across the sixth floor of the Bowling Green facade is a 
series of twelve statues carved from Tennessee marble. The figures are 
of heroic size and represent twelve sea-faring powers, ancient and 
modern, which have had part in the commerce of the globe. The sub- 
jects from left to right are: 

Greece (by F. E. Elwell) is typified b^Raillas- Athene, with cuirass and shield. 

Rome (by F. E. Elwell) is a soldier of-tl^'e Empire, bearing the mace, and crushing 
to his knees a barbarian captive. ''y 

Phcenecia (by F. M. Ruckstuhl) with ancient oared galley. 

Genoa (by Augustus Lukeman) is represented by Columbus; the Great Discoverer 
is clad in armor, with two-handed sword, and at his feet crouches an open-jawed 
dragon, typifying the triumph of Columbus over ignorance, superstition and bigotry. 

Venice (by F. M. L. Tonetti) iS represented by the Doge Mariano Falieri, in 
magnificently embroidered robe, and holding the prow of a gondola. 

Spain (by F. M. L. Tonetti) is represented by Isabella the Catholic, wearing the 
regal crown and royal robe, on which are embroidered the castles and lions of 
Castile and Arragon, and the Collar of the Golden Fleece. Her right hand rests on a 
globe, the left on sculptured arms, with the little Santa Maria of Columbus's fleet. 

Holland (by Louis St. Gaudens) is represented by Admiral van Tromp, with 
characteristic broad-brimmed and plumed hat, heavy boots and long sword. 

Portugal (by Louis St. Gaudens) is represented by Prince Henry the Navigator, 
clad in medieval armor. 

Denmark (by Johannes Gelert) is a woman Viking carrying a boarding pike. 
Other suggestions are rope and tackle. 

Belgium wears a trench helmet; on her cuirass is the Belgrian lion, and the shield 
bears the name Belgium. 

France (by Charles Graby), wearing the liberty cap, holds a statue to indicate 
pre-eminence in the fine arts, and a crowing cock proclaims the Frenchman's chal- 
lenge to the world. 

England (by Charles Graby) is personified as Britannia with hand on steering 
wheel, and bearing a shield embossed with the image of St. George. 

On pedestals advanced from the buildingj;? to the right and left of the main 
entrance, are sculptured marble groups by Daniel Cheater French, representing the 
four continents. Each is personified as a woman, and' the allegory is an epitome of 
♦^he development of the racial type. 

Asia holds the lotus flower, and in her lap is a figure of the Buddha. Beneath 
her feet are the skulls of the victims of oppression. Her eyes are closed; with 

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passive countenance she is heedless of the prayers ot the kneeling Hindu,- '.*ie ^inese 
coolie, whose arms are bound, and the suppliant women bound by th;- .^.jstice ot 
the ages. A tiger glares into her face. Behind her shines the iliuirlnating cros.5 -' 
the Christian religion. 

Africa, reclining against an Egyptian pillar, is seated betwae 
sphinx. Her attitude is of drowsiness and hopelessness. 

Europe is seated on a throne carved with the emblems of achieveu 
book is of the mighty past, the globe is the sphere of empire, the ships> 
for daring exploration, 

America, seated on a stone covered with barbaric inscriptions, holds i-. jne hano 
the lighted torch of progress; the other is extended protectingly above " *'«:ur«' ■■ 
nifying labor. An Indian peers over her shoulder, the eajgle is by her 
knees rest sheaves of grain. The attitude is alert, energetic, expectant. 

In the center of the attic of the Bowling Green front is a cartouch by Karl 
Bitter, displaying the shield of the United States, supported by two female figures 
and surmounted by an American eagle with outstretched wings. The sheathed S',"f 
typifies power and the security of peace; the bound bundle of reeds is t 
of the strength of the States united. A female head is carved above the 
arch by Alfano, and under the arch are the Arms of the City by the same sci 

The Custom House occupies an historic site. In the reception room 
of the Collector's office a memorial inscription reads: "On this site 
Fort Amsterdam was erected in 1626. Government House was built in 
1790, for President Washington. Here George Qinton and Jchn Jay 
lived. Used as Custom House from 1733 to 1875." 



Bowling Green. 



The diminutive oval of Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway, is 
the city's oldest park. Its story goes back to the beginning. When the 
Dutch came to Manhattan Island in 1626, they built Fort Amsterdam, 
which stood where the new U. S. Custom House now stands, and the 
Green was the Plaine reserved as a drill ground in front of the fort. 
A hundred years later in 1732 — this was m British times — the plot was 
by resolution of the Corporation leased "to some of the inhabitants of 
the said Broadway, in order to be inclosed to make a Bowling Green 
thereof, with walks therein, for the beauty and ornament of said street, 
as well as for the recreation and delight of the inhabitants of the city." 
Thus the park got its name. But it has been the scene of more exciting 
events than the most warmly contested game of bowls. In 1765, on the 
evening of the day when the Stamp Act went into effect, the indignant 
citizens gathered here, and using the wooden fence of the Green for 
fuel, burned the Lieutenant-Governor in effigy. When the act was re- 
pealed in 1766, the people showed their rejoicing by bonfires here, and 
afterward ordered from England an equestrian statue of King George 
III., which was set up in the center of the Bowling Green; and the park 
was inclosed with an iron fence, which had been imported from England 
at a cost of £800. July 9, 1776, after listening to the reading of the 
Declaration of Independence, the people came down to the Green, threw 
the statue from its pedestal and dragged it through the streets. Then, 
since it was leaden and represented much useful ammunition, it was ship- 
ped to Litchfield, Connecticut, where it was melted down and run into 



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bulle'ttJ.;;7J^ of them, for Patriot use; and it is recorded that in subse- 
quent engagements 400 British soldiers were killed with these bullets. 
The posts r' the iron railings of the Green were ornamented with 
crowns, wh*. . were broken off that July night; and thus mutilated, the 
railing is h . e to-day. The statue which now adorns the park is of 
Abraham- ie Peyster, an ancient worthy of Manhattan, of whom most 
us V uld never have heard if he had not had a descendent, John 
Watts ae Peyster, of the seventh generation in direct descent, to erect 
this m: jment in his memory. 

A, »owling Green we are in the midst of one of the most import- 
ant busaiess centers of the city. To the south, occupying an entire 
square, is the new U. S. Custom House. The Produce Exchange is 
just ac-joss the street, and on either side of Broadway tower the 
wavDJS^' e office buildings. Those on the right are the Welles and the 
Sta^"'*ird Oil; on the left the Washintgon, Bowling Green, Columbia, 
Aldricjj Court and Empire. The Standard is the home of the Standard 
Oil Company. The Washington was built by Cyrus W. Field, founder 
of the Atlantic Cable Company. The Bowling Green, of Byzantine 
architecture, should be visited for the magnificent marbles of its en- 
trance hall; at the further end of the hall a screen of stained glass 
quaintly pictures the old-time bowling on the green. 

The Produce Exchange. 

The Produce Exchange, on Whitehall street (near the lower end of 
Broadway), occupies a building which is one of the notable architectural 
features of New York. The exterior is of brick and terra-cotta, of rich 
red tones; the decorations are the Arms of the States, the prows of 
ships and the heads of domestic cattle. The structure is of immense 
size, 300x150 feet, and 116 feet in height, with a square tower rising 
225 feet from the pavement. The foundation rests upon 15,037 New 
England spruce and pine piles driven down to bedrock and cut off below 
the level of tide water. The Exchange Room is an apartment 220 x 144 
feet, and 60 feet in height to the peak of the skylight. The floor space 
is, next to that of the Madison Square Garden, the largest in the city 

The business done here is wholesale buying and selling of produce 
Grain, flour, lard, provisions, petroleum, oil, naval stores, seeds, butter 
cheese, hops, hay and straw are the principal articles dealt in. The 
volume of business exceeds a billion dollars a year. The long tables 
are for the display of samples, upon which many of the transactions are 
based; and in the corner is the oval "Wheat Pit," where wheat is bought 
and sold. Bulletins announce the prices current in other trade centers 
and give other information. "While on the floor a buyer may receive 
from Europe a cable order for a cargo of grain, flour or provisions, ma> 
purchase what is ordered, charter a vessel for shipment, engage an ele- 
vator to load the grain, or a lighter to move provisions or flour, effect 
insurance, sell exchange, cable back the fact of his purchases, and write 
and mail his letters." The membership is limited to 3,000, and is full. 



Trinity Church. 



One of the architectural adornments of lower New York is the noble 
Gothic pile of Trinity Church, set in its churchyard on Broadway at the 
head of Wall street. Its proportions have been dwarfed by the surround- 
ing office buildings, which tower above the spire, but the dignity and 
beauty of Trinity have in no wise been diminished; the contrast between 
its restful repose and the turmoil of Broadway is as grateful to-day as 
ever; and the open gate still as persuasively invites us to turn aside for 
a moment within the twilight of its aisles, or to stroll amid the head- 
stones where so many thousands are sleeping the long sleep. 

The church is the third of those which have stood here since 1697. 
The first one was burned in the great fire of 1776, which destroyed 500 
buildings, and the second one, having become unsafe, was pulled down 
to make way for the present edifice, which was completed in 1846. It is 
of brown sandstone, and is regarded as a fine specimen of the Gothic 
style. Thousands of visitors to New York have in years past climbed 
Trinity's steeple for the view, but the skyscrapers have changed that. 
The finial cross is 284 feet above the pavement, while the American 
Surety Building across Broadway is 306 feet, the Manhattan Life Build- 
ing 348 feet, and the Empire Building 300 feet. In the belfry is the 
famous chime of bells. On New Year's Eve thousands of people come 
down to Trinity to hear the chimes ring out the old year and welcome 
the new. 

The Bronze Doors which adorn the entrances were given by William 
Waldorf Astor as a memorial of his father, John Jacob Astor. Their 
cost was $40,000. The Central Door is by Carl Bitter. The subjects of 
the panels are drawn from the Bible: 

Genesis III.: 23-24 — The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden. 

Genesis XXVIII.: 10-13 — Jacob's Dream of the Ladder ascending to Heaven. 

St. Luke I.: 28-3&— The Annunciation. 

St. Matthew XXVIII.: 1-8— The Resurrection. (The two Marys at the tomb.) 

Revelation IV.: 6, 10, 11— The Vision of the Throne. 

Revelations VI.: 15, 16, 18— The Opening of the Sixth Seal. 

In the borders and tympanum are statuettes of the Twelve Apo'^tles. 

The North Door is by J. Massey Rhind. The subjects arc: 

Exodus XII.: 23 — The Passover in Egypt. (A Hebrew is anointing the lintel and 
door post with blood that his first born may be spared.) 

Deuteronomy XIX,: 1-6— The City of Refupe (to the gate of which a fugitive from 
vengeance has just come). 

Acts III.: 1, 2— The miraculous cure by St Peter and St. John of the man lame 
from his birth. 

Acts XVI.: 25-28— Paul and Silas leaving the prison after the earthquake. 

Dotnine quo vadis— The legend, as told in a sermon attributed to St. Ambrose, is 
that as St. Peter was fleeing from Rome to escape persecution, he met his Master 
going into the city; and to the Apostle's Dotnine quo vadis — "Lord, whither goesl 
Thou?" the answer was given, "I go to Rome to be crucified again." 

Revelation XXII.: 14 — The blessed "enter in through the gate into the city." 

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The South Door is by Charles H. Niehaus. The subjects are historical : 

Hendrik Hudson off Manhattan Island, Sept. 11, 1609. 
Hudson off Manhattan Island, Sept. 11, 1609. 

Dr. Barclay Preaching to Indians, 1738. Barclay was one of the early missionaries 
supported by Trinity. 

Washington at St. Paul's Chapel after his Inauguration, April 30, 1789. 

Consecration of Four Bishops in St. Paul's Chapel, Oct. 31, 1832. 

Consecration of Trinity Church, May 21, 1846. 

Dedication of the Astor Reredos, June 29, 1877. 

The statues of the Evangelists, above the doors on the north and 
south, were presented by William Fitzhugh Whitehouse. 

The interior is of impressive size. Rows of sculptured stone columns 
support the groined roof ; the light comes in subdued and warmed by the 
stained glass windows, and the chancel is magnificent with the superb 
altar and reredos which were given by John Jacob Astor and William 
Astor in memory of their father, William B. Astor. The altar is of pure 
white marble ; its face is divided by shafts of red stone into three panels ; 
in the center panel is a Maltese cross in mosaic set with cameos, with a 
Christ head, and the symbols of the Evangelists. The reredos is of Caen 
stone and alabaster. The three panels on each side and the large one in 
the center contain sculptures of scenes in the life of Christ; and above 
are statuettes of the Twelve Apostles. The reredos is 20 feet high, and 
fills almost the entire width of the chancel. Its cost was $100,000. 

Trinity Churchyard. — There was a graveyard here (the site was then 
beyond the city limits) before the first church was built in 1697. The 
oldest grave that can be identified is in the northern section on the left 
of the first path; it is that of a little child, Richard Churcher, "who 
died . the 5 of . April 1681 . of . age . 5 years and . 5 . months"; and 
whose name, engraved on the sandstone slab, has endured through the 
centuries with an immortality singularly in contrast with the brief span 
of his child life. 

Near the porch on the north side of the church is the grave of William 
Bradford, Printer, who printed the first newspaper in New York — the 
New York Gazette in 1725. He died in 1752, aged ninety-two years. The 
stone bears the injunction: 

Reader, reflect how soon you'll quit this Stage; 
You'll find but few attain to such an Age. 
Life's full of Pain. Lo! Here's a place of Rest, 
Prepare to meet your GOD, then you are blest. 

Following the path to the right, we come to a slab, lying flat in the 
turf, inscribed with the name of Charlotte Temple. But Charlotte 
Temple was a creation of fiction, the heroine of Mrs. Rowson's "Char- 
lotte Temple: A Tale of Truth," written in 1790. The story was of an 
English school girl, who eloped with her lover, a British officer; came 
to New York; was betrayed and deserted, and died of a broken heart. 
The pathetic tale took strong hold upon the tender sympathies of the 
maids and matrons of that day, and has had vogue among readers of 
'Tales of Truth" ever since. By many Mrs. Rawson's heroine has been 
accepted as a real person. It was no wonder, then, that when, in the 



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'40s, one of the stonecutters employed in the erection of the church 
carved on this slab the name of Charlotte Temple, the imitation tomb- 
stone laid here above the imaginary grave of a fictitious character in 
due time became a shrine of sentimental pilgrimage. Countless flowers 
have been laid upon "the grave of Charlotte Temple;" we may find 
such tributes here to-day. 

The Richard Churcher headstone is directly across the path from here; 
on the back of the stone is carved the emblem of a winged hour-glass 
with skull and cross-bones. A few steps beyond, on the left, is the 
curious tombstone of Sidney Breese, merchant and officer in the British 
army, who died in 1767. The epitaph runs: 

Sidney Breese June 9 1767 
Made by himself 

Ha Sidney Sidney 
Lyest thou here 

I here Lye 
Till time is flown 

To its Eternity 

In the northern part of the ground near Broadway stands the hand- 
some Gothic memorial commonly called the Martyrs' Monument: 

Sacred to the Memory of those brave and good Men, who died whilst Im- 
prisoned In thli City, for their devotion to the cause of America's Independence." 

During the Revolution, the regular jails of the city not sufficing to con- 
tain the American prisoners, churches and sugar houses were converted 
into prisons. Crowded into these, the patriot prisoners were subjected 
by their British jailers to such cruelties and privations that thousands 
died of disease and starvation ; and day by day the dead were carried 
out and thrown into trenches. Tradition has it that many were so 
buried here; and the monument was erected at a time when the city 
proposed to cut a street through the churchyard at this point. 

On the left, as we enter at the lower Broadway gate, is the monument, 
"In memory of Captain James Lawrence, of the United States Navy, who 
fell on the ist day of June, 1813, in the 32d year of his age, in the action 
between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon." The tribute on the 
pedestal reads: 

The herolck commander of the frigate Chesapeake, whose remains are here 
deposited, expressed with his expiring breath his devotion to his country. 
Neither the fury of battle, the anguish ot a mortal wound, nor the horrors of 
approaching death could subdue his gallant spirit. His dying words were, 
"DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP." 

The wife of Captain Lawrence, who survived her husband for more 
than fifty years, lies beside him. Just beyond is the bronze statue of 
Judge John Watts, who was Recorder of the City in Colonial days. 

Alexander Hamilton's tomb is marked by the conspicuous white marble 
monument in the south grounds near the Rector street railing. On the 
pedestal is inscribed: 




THl TRINITY BinLDING. 
P&oto %i imng Unaernill 



38 NEW YORK. 

T« the memory of Alexander Hamilton the Corforatlon of Trinity Church haa 
erected thli monument In teitlmony of their reipect for the Patriot of Incorrupt- 
ible Integrity, the Soldier of Approved Valour, the Statesman of Consummate 
Wisdom, whose talents and virtues will be admired by grateful posterity long 
after this marble shall have mouldered Into dust. He died July 12, 1804, 
aged 47. 

Here, too, is the grave of his wife, who died in 1854, after a widow- 
hood of fifty years. 

But we cannot begin to catalogue the names of the distinguished dead 
who repose here — Livingston and Lewis, signers of the Declaration of 
Independence; Albert Gallatin, who succeeded Hamilton as Secretary of 
the Treasury; Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat 

If we were to tell them all, whose monuments and headstones are 
legible to-day, there would yet remain the host whose names have been 
eaten from the stones by the tooth of time, and the yet greater host 
whose resting places are unmarked and whose names are unknown. 
Trinity's dead number many tens of thousands. 

From various points in the churchyard we get glimpses through the 
trees of the great office buildings on Broadway, chief among them the 
American Surety Building, with its gilded cornice shining against the 
blue of the sky. On the south the stupendous fagade of the Empire 
Building extends from Broadway to Church street; on the west is the 
United States Express Company's Building, and on the other side of 
Broadway are the Manhattan Life and the Union Trust. On the north 
rises the twenty-one-story Trinity Building, its fagade stretching from 
Broadway to Church street and rising 280 feet in the air. 

Trinity Church, established in 1697, is the richest church society in 
America. From its income of $775,000 a year it supports the parent 
church and eight chapels (St. Paul's among them), contributes regularly 
to twenty-four congregations, and maintains schools, a dispensary, a 
hospital and a long list of charitable enterprises. The two plots of 
real estate occupied by Trinity and St. Paul's would bring a fabulous 
price. 




WALL STREET. 
Photo © Geo. r. Hall & Son. 



Wall Street. 



Wall street took its name from the wall which once defended New 
Amsterdam at this point.* The wall outlived its usefulness and disap- 
peared 200 years ago, but the name it gave to the street which ran beside 
it has become the most famous street name in the world. 

Wall street, the place, is the financial center of the country. Wall 
street, the name, is synonymous with securities, stocks, bonds and shares, 
trust certificates, gold, money, investment, speculation, fortune, ruin. We 
shall find here a succession of imposing bank and office buildings whose 
architectural effect is of solidity, strength and durability — qualities which 
have their ultimate expression in the massive constructions of the Sub- 
Treasury and the Custom House. Facing the street and filling the vista 
on Broadway, stands Trinity Church, its melodious belfry chiming the 
hours of the Wall street day. The sidewalks and the street itself are 
crowded with alert, intent, hurrying, jostling throngs of bankers, brokers, 
lawyers, clerks, expressmen, messenger boys, ubiquitous here as every- 
where throughout the city; and now and then, if we recognize him, a 
detective. 

A few steps from Broadway, New street opens to the south in a 
veritable Rocky Mountain caiion between towering cliffs. A few doors 
below is the 

New York Stock Exchange, the greatest market of stocks, bonds, and 
other securities in the world. The exchange has i,ioo members; seats 
have sold as high as $95,000. Admission to the visitors' gallery is by 
card from a member. The chief external feature of the million-dollar 
building is the Broad street fagade. 

The Consolidated Exchange occupies a monumental building at the 
corner of Broad and Beaver streets. The Curb Market of the "curb- 
stone brokers" is in Broad street in front of the Mills Building. It is a 
meeting place for trading in stocks. Standard Oil among them, which 
are not dealt in on the regular exchanges. 

On the northwest corner of Wall and Nassau towers the magnificent 
Bankers' Trust Company Building. This is distinguished by mas- 
siveness of construction and the elegance of the interior; and is further 
notable as an example of that astonishing system of tearing down and 
building up, which is characteristic of the development of the city. The 
Bankers' Trust building here occupies the site of the Gillender Build- 
ing, a twenty-story structure which was in its day one of the archi- 
tectural marvels of the town, and which was in 1911 demolished to make 
way for the present building. Opposite is the 

*The wall was built bv command of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant in 1653. The palisades, 
or stockade, extended along the East River, from near the present head of Coenties 
Slip, on the north line of Pearl Street, crossing the fields to the North River, on 
the present north side of Wall Street (whence its name), and then along the North 
River to the fort, just east of Greenwich Street, which was then under water. In 
digging the foundation of the new Bowling Green offices, 5-11 Broadway, a large 
number of these old posts were found many feet under the surface. Although nearly 
250 years old. the portions found were in a wonderful state of preservation. Canes and 
other mementoes have been made from these. — Spencer Trask in Historic Nezv York. 

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WALL STREET. 



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THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE-THE BIOAD SHEET FAJADE. 

Appliances!" fnd "The Designe'^'Tn? th^ Mlcha^n^J"'"' ^"*=°*^^^ ^"^ Mechanifal 

United States Sub-Treasury, a branch of the Treasury at Washing- 
ton and second in importance only to the parent institution. Two-thirds 
of the direct money dealings of the Treasury are transacted through the 
New York branch. The vaults contain immense deposits of coin; the 
sum stored here has reached $225,000,000 at one time. Not open to 



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NEPV YORK, 




R. W. Gibson, Architect. XHE NEW YORK CLEARING HOUSE. 



inspection.) The building occupies the site where stood in Colonial times 
the City Hall and the Capitol of the Province, which afterward became 
Federal Hall, in which assembled the first Congress. The furniture used 
then is preserved in the City Hall. In front of the Wall street portico 
stands Ward's statue of Washington, erected under the auspices of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and unveiled Nov. 26, 1883, the centennial anni- 
versary of Evacuation Day. The bronze Washington stands where stood 
the living Washington when he took the oath. Just inside the Treasury 
door is preserved under glass a brown-stone slab inscribed : "Standing 
on this stone, in the balcony of Federal Hall. April 30th, 1789, George 
Washington took the oath as the first President of the United States of 
America." 



WALL STREET. 



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THE SUB-TREASURY. 
Photo © Geo. P. Hall & Son. 



The work of constructing the massive building "extended over a period 
of about ten years. Solidity and impenetrability seem to have been the 
basic principles upon which it was built. From foundation to roof it is 
an ingeniously welded mass of stone and iron. Its essential parts do not 
include a stick of timber. The building stands on solid rock, and ita 
roof is of stone. Its walls are from three to five feet thick, with 
windows iron-barred and protected by steel shutters. Beneath the main 
floor, which is of solid masonry, there are a basement twelve feet high 
and a sub-basement about six feet in height. This sub-basement is a 
perfect catacomb of heavy brick arches resting on solid rock. For all 
purposes of defense the Sub-Treasury is a fortress. Housed within its 
almost impregnable walls lOO men could resist the assaults of armed 
thousands as long as the provisions held out. In the upper part of the 
building there is an arsenal which contains an adequate equipment for 
at least loo men. There are three Catling guns, stacks of rifles, cabinets 
of huge navy revolvers and, moreover, a magazine full of deadly hand- 



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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE— LIBERTY STREET. 
From photo copyright, 1901, by James B. Baker, Architect. 



grenades. For the effective use of these weapons provision has also 
been made. Each one of the steel shutters at the doors and windows 
contains loopholes through which shots may be fired, and on the roof 
are three bullet-proof turrets, ten feet high, from which riflemen could 
in safety shower cold lead down upon a mob. As an additional safe- 
guard, the ceilings of the stone porches at the two ends of the building 



WALL STREET. 45 

are perforated, and from these points of vantage, inaccessible from the 
streets, the defenders of the building would be able to drop explosives 
upon the heads of any foolhardy assailants who might try to batter down 
the doors." — New York Times. 

Adjoining the Sub-Treasury is the United States Assay Office, a 
branch of the Mint. The squat and dingy building which stood here 
so long has been supplanted by a modern structure. Here are great 
refining furnaces, where $50,000,000 worth of the precious metals are 
melted in a year; hydraulic press, with a pressure of 200 tons to the 
square foot, which compresses the refined gold into $20,000 cheeses; 
delicate scales, which register weights ranging from a thousand pounds 
to a single hair from one's head, and piles of gold bricks. 

Further down the street, on the opposite side, is seen the National 
City Bank Building, with its double tier of immense granite columns. 
This is the old Custom House, which was built at a cost of $1,800,000. 
No longer serving for the growing volume of the customs business, it 
was sold by the Government for $3,500,000. 

The streets which are near Wall street and open out from it — Cedar, 
Pine, Broad, Nassau, William, Exchange Place and lower Broadway — 
are in all essentials a part of it. The term "Wall Street" as meaning a 
financial center includes them all. Though we enter the Stock Exchange 
from Wall street, the Exchange fronts on Broad street. Opposite the 
Sub-Treasury at the corner of Broad and Wall is the white marble 
Drexel Building, with the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. Next to it on 
Broad street is the Mills Building. South rises the twenty-story Broad 
Exchange, which cost $7,500,000, and in floor space is one of the largest 
office buildings in the world. Notable structures on the west of the 
street are the twenty-one-story Commercial Cable with its twin domes, 
the fifteen-story Johnston and the Edison, deserving of attention for the 
richness and dignity of its fagade. Turn which way we may from Wall 
street, we shall find ourselves in a maze of deep and narrow canons, for 
here we are in the heart of New York's high buildings. 

The Clearing House Association comprises 41 banks and 15 
building which is one of the handsomest in New York. In design and 
adornment, the white marble structure is in fit keeping with the dignity 
and importance of an institution whose daily transactions are regarded 
as a barometer of the financial condition of the cotmtry. The cost was 
$1,100,000. Visitors are not admitted. 

Tr.c Clearing House Association comprises forty-eight banks and fifteen 
trust companies (these representing also numerous others), which meet 
here to settle their accounts with one another. In the course of its 
business, each one of the banks receives checks and drafts drawn against 
some or all of the others. Instead of each one sending to collect these 
checks from the others, all the banks come together in the Clearing 
House and turn in the checks drawn on each. After a system of ex- 
change, a balance is struck and the sum is ascertained which each bank 
must pay in or which must be paid to it to clear its account. By this 



46 NEW YORK. 

system of paying differences it is practicable to settle enormous accounts 
in a way extremely simple and expeditious and involving the actual pay- 
ment of amounts which are comparatively small. Thus for the year 
1918 the average daily clearing (i. e., the sum of the checks presented 
by all the banks) were $575,987,390, while the average daily balance 
paid in cash, were $56,947,402, or 9.88 per cent. 

The clerks representing the banks meet in the Clearing House at ten 
o'clock, and the balances are ascertained by 12:30, A bank which is a 
debtor to the Clearing House must pay its balance by 1 130 of the same 
day, either in cash or Clearing House certificates. Banks which are 
creditors receive checks for the balance due them the same day. 

The Chamber of Commerce is a massive pile of white marble, in the 
Renaissance style, with decorations in bronze. Between the columns are 
statues of Alexander Hamilton by Martini, De Witt Qinton by French, 
and John Jay by Bitter, and above the entrance are groups symbolical 
of Commerce. The vestibule admits to a monumental hall and broad 
stairway of Caen stone. Admission is by card of a member. The Cham- 
ber is a magnificent apartment ninety feet long, sixty feet in width and 
thirty feet high. It is lighted through an enormous skylight in the ceil- 
ing; and the walls, unbroken to a height of twenty feet, are himg with 
the Chamber's large collection of portraits of New York merchants. The 
Chamber of Commerce, organized in 1768, is an association of merchants 
which concerns itself with questions affecting domestic and foreign com- 
merce, the welfare of the city and national interests. It has had large 
influence in the development of the port of New York and the city's 
growth and commercial expansion. The annual dinner given by the 
Chamber of Commerce is an occasion of discussion of public questions. 



St. Paul's Chapel. 



St. Paul s Chapel is on Broadway between Vesey and Fulton streets, 
just t)elow the City Hall Park and the Post Ofl&ce. Curiously enough, 
the Broadway end of the building is the rear, for the church was built 
fronting on the river; and in the old days a pleasant lawn sloped down 
to the water s edge, which was then on the line of Greenwich street. 
One effect of St. Paul's thus looking away from Broadway is to give us 
at the portal an increased sense of remoteness from the great thorough- 
fare, and of isolation from its strenuous life, so that all the more readily 
we yield to the pervading spell of the churchyard's peaceful calm. 

St. Paul's is a cherished relic of Colonial days. Built in 1766 as a 
chapel of Trinity Parish, it is the only church edifice which has been pre- 
served from the pre-Revolutionary period. After the burning of Trinity 
in 1776, St. Paul's became the parish church; here worshipped Lord 
Howe and Major Andre and the English midshipman who was after- 
ward King George IV. After his inauguration at Federal Hall in Wall 
street, President Washington and both houses of Congress came in 
solemn procession to St. Paul's, where service was conducted by Bishop 
Provoost, Chaplain of the Senate, and a Te Deum was sung. There- 
after, so long as New York remained the Capital, the President was a 
regular attendant here; his diary for Sunday after Sunday contains the 
entry: "Went to St. Paul's Chapel in the forenoon." Washington's 
Pevv^ remains to-day as it was then; it is midway of the church on the 
left aisle, and is marked by the Arms of the United States on the wall. 
Across tne church is the pew which was reserved for the Governor of 
the State, and was occupied by Governor Qinton; above it are the State 
Arms. The pulpit canopy is ornamented with the gilded crest of the 
Prince of Wales, a crown surmounted by three ostrich feathers. It is 
the only emblem of royalty that escaped destruction at the hands of the 
Patriots when they came into possession of the city in 1783. 

In the wall of the Broadway portico, where it is seen from the street 
and is observed by innumerable eyes daily, is the Montgomery Monu- 
ment, in memory of Major-General Richard Montgomery, of Revolu- 
tionary fame. It consists of a mural tablet bearing an urn upon a pedes- 
tal supported by military accoutrements. General Montgomery com- 
manded the expedition against Canada in 1775, and on Dec. 31 of that 
year, in company with Colonel Benedict Arnold, led the assault upon 
Quebec. Just after the exclamation, "Men of New York, you will follow 
where your General leads !" he fell, mortally wounded. Aaron Burr bore 
his body from the field, and the Englishmen gave it soldier's burial in 
the city. Forty-three years later, in 1818, Canada surrendered the re- 
mains to the United States. 

The monument had been ordered by Congress as early as 1776. It was 
bought by Benjamin Franklin in Paris, and was shipped to America on 
a privateer, A British gunboat captured the privateer, and in turn was 

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48 NEW YORK. 

taken by an American vessel, and so at last the monument reached its 
destination. The inscription read: 

This Monument Is erected by order of CONGRESS, 25th Janry, 1776, to 
transmit to Posterity a grateful remembrance of the patriotic conduct, enterprise 
and perseverance of MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY, who 
after a series of successes amidst the most discouraging Difficulties Fell in the 
attack on QUEBEC 31st Decbr, 1775. Aged 37 years. 

The State of New York caused the remains of Majr. Genl. Richard Mont- 
gomery to be conveyed from Quebec and deposited beneath this monument the 
8th day of July, 1818. 

At that time Mrs. Montgomery, in the forty-third year of her widow- 
hood, was living near Tarrytown on the Hudson. Governor Clinton had 
told her of the day when the steamboat Richmond, bearing her husband's 
remains, would pass down the river; and sitting alone on the piazza of 
her home, she watched for its coming. With what emotions she saw the 
pageant is told in a letter written to her niece: 

"At length they came by with all that remained of a beloved husband, 
who left me in the bloom of manhood, a perfect being. Alas ! how did 
he return? However gratifying to my heart, yet to my feelings every 
pang I felt was renewed. The pomp with which it was conducted added 
to my woe; when the steamboat passed with slow and solemn movement, 
stopping before my house, the troops under arms, the Dead March from 
the muffled drums, the mournful music, the splendid coffin canopied with 
crepe and crowned with plumes, you may conceive my anguish. I can- 
not describe it." 

The most conspicuous monuments in the churchyard near Broadway 
are those of Thomas Addis Emrr.ett and Dr. William J. MacNevin, both 
of whom participated in the Irish rebellion of 1798, came to New York 
and achieved distinction, Emmett at the bar and MacNevin in medicine. 
The inscriptions are in English, Celtic and Latin. West of the church is 
the urn with flames issuing from it, which marks the resting place of 
George Frederick Cooke, the distinguished tragedian; born in England 
1756; died in New York 1812. The monument was erected in 1821 by 
the great English actor, Edmund Kean, and has been the subject of pious 
care by Charles Kean, who restored it in 1846, Edward A. Sothern in 
1874 ^^^ Edwin Booth in 1890 The epitaph is by Fitz-Greene Halleck: 

Three Kingdoms claim his birth. 
Both hemispheres pronounce his worth. 

In the high building which looks down upon St. Paul's Churchyard 
from the south is the home of the Evening Mail; and across the church- 
yard on Vesey street is the Evening Post. The twenty-five-story St. 
Paul Building occupies the site of the old Herald Building, and before 
that of Barnum's Museum. The Park Bank, adjoining, is one of the 
largest banks in the city. 




ST, Paul's chapel. 
Photo © Geo. P. Hall & Son, 



City Hall Park. 



There are some of us to whom this little park is very dear; it is our 
bit of nature — ^not the real country, but a symbol of it, which, as we see 
it from day to day, tells us in miniature of the pageant of the seasons. 
We watch the tender green of its grass in the spring, and note the swell- 
ing buds and the unfolding leaves, and when the robin and the oriole 
stop here on their northward migration, we know that the birds are 
nesting in the orchards and the village elms. When the crumpled leaves 
strew the lawns, we see in fancy the painted panorama of the autumn 
hills; and in winter the diminutive expanses of snow are magnified into 
illimitable fields shrouded in white and still in the moonlight. This is 
the City Hall Park of suggestion. 

The actual City Hall Paik is the center and head of the official life 
of New York. Here are the municipal and county buildings; the City 
Hall, with the offices of Mayor, Marshal and Sheriff, the halls of the 
Council and Assembly; and here are the courts with judges, jurors, 
lawyers and litigants. Here congregate the poHticians, sleek, rotund, silk- 
hatted. Here to the Mayor's office come the Italians to be married, hun- 
dreds of couples every year. The park is the stamping ground — theirs 
from time immemorial — of the newsboy and the bootblack, and here, too, 
we shall meet the gentleman who requests us to lend him two cents to 
get a night's lodging. 

On the west Broadway rolls its ceaseless course; on the east is Park 
Row; on the north runs Chambers street, and on the south the Post 
Office occupies a site which was taken for it from the original park area. 
Looming up above the Post Office rises the Park Row Building. Front- 
ing the park on the east is the Potter Building; adjoining is No. 39 
Park Row; above and beyond it the American Tract Society Building; 
to the north is the home of the Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley; 
Ward's bronze statue of Greeley stands in front of the publication office. 
Adjoining the Tribune the Sun "shines for all" from the building which 
was, in 181 1, the first Tammany Hall. High above its contemporaries 
the World occupies offices in the dome of the Pulitzer Building. The 
Brooklyn Bridge here interrupts the succession of Newspaper Row, but 
we may see beyond it the German Herold, with the herald sounding his 
trumpet on the roof. 

The open space upon which the Tribune fronts is Printing House 
Square. Over it presides Benjamin Franklin, the patron saint of Printer- 
dom. The bronze statue is by Plassman. 

The scene in Printing House Square is characteristic of a newspaper 
center. Crowds gather about the bulletin boards; great rolls of paper 
are unloading for the cylinder presses; yellow delivery wagons are 
scurrying away with yellower extras, and newsboys and newswomen 
obstruct the sidewalk and assail us with their shrill but not unmusical 
cries. If we cross over to Frankfort street, between the Sun and World 

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CITY HALL PARK. 



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CITY HALL PARK. 



ill the late afternoon, we shall see, in the clamorous swarms of newsboys 
awaiting their papers, one of the sights of New York— one wonders 
where they all come from and where they all go to after they have 
passed beyond the newsboy stage. But the great spectacle of Printing 
House Square comes only once in four years. It is the scene of election 
night, when Square and Park are one surging mass of humanity gathered 
to read the returns displayed on newspaper office transparencies; to shout 
and hurrah with delight or groan and hoot in disgust as inother county 
is heard from; to be entertained meanwhile by the newspaper brass bands 
and to entertain themselves with a thousand hideous, braying horns. It 
is a typical New York crowd, which means a good-natured crowd, an 
orderly crowd and a crowd of which it is good to be a part. 

Southwest of the Park, on Broadway, opposite the Post Office, is the 
Woolworth Building, its tower rising to a height of 750 feet above the 
sidewalk — the highest inhabited building in the world. West is the 
Postal Telegraph Building, and next is the Home Life, whose whit^ 



NEW YORK. 




HALL OF RECORDS — CHAMBERS STREET. 



marble front is one of the most beautiful in town. On the corner of 
Chambers street rise the square towers of the Shoe and Leather Bank. 
Beside it is the new Chemical Bank, with its deposits of over $25,000,000, 
and its shares of capital stock, which, with a par value of $100, sell for 
more than $4,000. On the upper side of Chambers street is the 17-story 
Broadway-Chambers. The dingy marble office building opposite was 
formerly the wholesale store of A. T. Stewart, built on the site of an 
old negro graveyard. Rising above it is the handsome Dun Building; 
east of this is the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, and still further 
east is the tremendous bulk of the new Municipal Building. Here are 
some statistics of the structure, but they are unimpressive in compari- 
son with the efifect produced by the actual sight of the building itself. 
There are thirty-four stories, of which eight are in the tower. Height 
from sidewalk to top of the 24-foot figure surmounting the tower, 539 
feet. Height of tower, from twenty-sixth story, 210 feet. Height 
from Subway station arcade, 559 feet. Office space, 651,000 square feet. 
The foundation contract was the largest ever given in the country; 
cost of foundation $1,500,000. Depth of foundation 130 feet, of which 90 
feet is below water level. Area of basement, over two acres. Area of 
first floor, 43,000 square feet. Frontage on Center street, 448 feet; Park 




MUNICIPAL BUILDING. 
City Hall in Foreground. 



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Row, 361 feet; Duane street, 339 feet; Tryon Row, 71 feet. Cost, esti- 
mated, $7,000,000; probably $10,000,000 when completed. 

In contrast to the bigness of the Municipal Building is the City Hall, 
an architectural feature of the Park in which New Yorkers take just 
.pride, and one which is much admired by architects for the well-balanced 
and symmetrical design and the purity of its classic details. It was com- 
pleted in 1812. The Goddess of Justice, holding her even scales on the 
cupola, is not so ancient as that; the statue is the successor of the 
original figure, which was burned when the Hall caught fire from the 
fireworks during the great celebration of the laying of the Atlantic Cable 
in August, 1858. The Hall is built of white marble, but the rear wall is 
of freestone, for the builders of 1812 surmised that the city would never 
go beyond this. To-day the city limits are sixteen miles north. The 
Mayor's room is on the first floor. Under one of its windows on the 
outside is a tablet recording: "Near this spot, in the presence of General 
George Washington, the Declaration of Independence was read and 
published to the American Army, July 9th, 1776." 

The halls of the Council and Assembly are on the second floor, and 
may be visited. The Governor's Room, originally intended for the use 
of the Governor of the State, is on the second floor. Across the hall is 
a statue of Thomas Jefferson, by David d* Angers, a replica of the one 
in the Capitol at Washington. The Governor's Room, which is open to 
the public from 10 to 4 daily (Saturday to noon), contains Trumbull's 
full-length equestrian portrait of General Washington, and a series of 
portraits of New York's Governors and other worthies. That of Gover- 
nor Dix, by Anna M. Lea, represents him as author of the historic dis- 
patch sent by him as Secretary of the Treasury to Wm. Hemphill Jones 
in New Orleans, Jan. 29, 1861 : "If any one attempts to haul down the 
American flag, shoot him on the spot." An easel bears a Washington 
portrait woven in silk in Lyons, France, at a cost of $10,000. Here, 
too, are preserved the desk and table used by President Washington 
during his first term. The table is inscribed in letters of gold: "Wash- 
ington's writing table, 1789." The fine old' mahogany furniture is that 
which was used by the first Congress of the United States in Federal 
Hall, in Wall street. 

The City Hall has been the scene of many festal celebrations and of 
solemnities as well. Here in April of 1865 the martyred Lincoln lay in 
state to receive a tribute of affection and sorrow from a half -million 
people ; and here in 2885, for a day and a night, the unbroken lines passed 
reverently by the bier of Grant. Here in 1881 rested the body of the 
explorer, De Long, rescued from the desolation of the Arctic wastes; 
and hither, in 1882, from the ship which had brought him from the alien 
soil of Tunis, they bore the remains of John Howard Payne, to the 
measured strains of his own "Home, Sweet Home." 

Back of the City Hall is the County Court House, which was built 
during the Tweed regime, and cost $12,000,000. The bill for the plaster- 
ing was $3,000,000, and for the furniture $1,000,000. It is a very rich and 
beautiful specimen of Corinthian architecture, particularly the hand- 



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NATHAN HALI. 



some portico on Chambers street, but it would be built for much less 
money now. The walk between the City Hall and the Court House is 
called "Hand-Shaking Alley," so many politicians meet and greet one 
another here. The buildings east of the Court House was formerly the 
Criminal Court, where tens of thousands have awaited the verdict that 
was to set them free or send them to prison. 

Across Chambers street is the $6000,000 Hall of Records, in which 
provision is made for the safe-keeping of the deeds of all the real estate 
of Manhattan Island. The exterior sculptures of the Hall by Bush 



56 NEW YORK, 

Brown and Macmonnies, include figures of Commerce, Industry, Navi- 
gation, History, Poetry, Inscription, Preservation, Law, Maternity and 
Heritage; groups of the races — Indian, Dutch, English and Huguenot — 
which had part in the city's past; and statues of twenty-four men promi- 
nent in its development. 

In front of the City Hall stands the Macmonnies bronze statue erected 
by the Society of the Sons of the Revolution in memory of Nathan 
Hale, a Captain of the Regular Army of the United States of America, 
who gave his life for his country in the City of New York, Sept. 22, 1776. 
In 1776, when the American troops had evacuated New York and 
were encamped on Harlem Heights, Captain Hale volunteered to enter 
the British lines on Long Island and secure for General Washington in- 
formation as to the strength and disposition of the enemy's forces. He 
was arrested, without trial sentenced to death as a spy, denied the pres- 
ence of a clergyman or the use of a Bible in his last hours, and the 
letter he had written to his mother and sisters was destroyed before his 
face by his executioner. In all the annals of American history it would 
be difficult to find a more exalted sentiment of patriotism than his dying 
words, set here in letters of enduring bronze for the passing throng? 
o read: 

"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" 

The Park has always been a common. A bronze tablet in the corridor 
of the Post Office, erected by the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution, records that "On the common 
of the City of New York, near where this building now stands, there 
stood from 1766 to 1776 a liberty pole erected to commemorate the repeal 
of the Stamp Act. It was repeatedly destroyed by the violence of the 
Tories, and as repeatedly replaced by the Sons of Liberty, who organized 
a constant watch and guard. In its defense the first martyr blood of the 
American Revolution was shed on Jan. 18, 1770." 

There are two Subway stations in the Park, the City Hall Station and 
the Brooklyn Bridge Station, which is the largest on the line. A tablet 
in the pavement in front of the City Hall commemorates the breaking 
of ground for the tunnel construction by the Mayor on March 24, 1900 



New York and Brooklyn Bridges. 

The New York and Brooklyn Bridge, which spans the East River, 
connecting the Boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, has its Manhat- 
tan terminal at the City Hall Park. The promenade is free; fare by 
trolley, 5 cents; by bridge cars, 3 cents one way, round trip 5 cents. To 
see the bridge, we should view it from the water, or walk across it, or 
at least go out on the New York side as far as the tower. Only by 
actually going out upon the bridge may one gain any conception of its 
tremendous construction. We shall find, too, a memorable prospect of 
river and harbor and city, east over Brooklyn, west and north over 
New York to the Palisades. Here we begin to realize the magnitude 
of the city, as we contemplate its vast expanse in the north and the 
mountain of masonry in the south. The ridge of high buildings on the 
lower end of Manhattan, as seen from the bridge in the afternoon, has 
much of the character of a mountain; its heights cast in shadow the 
district east of it just as a mountain shadows the slopes and valleys 
behind it long before the sun sets. If we go out to the middle of the 
river span, we shall have the novel experience of looking directly down 
upon the water craft 135 feet below. As seen from here, even the 
largest steamboat takes on an appearance curiously suggestive of a 
toy boat. 

The bridge was begun in 1870 and opened to traffic in 1883, having 
consumed thirteen years in building, and cost $15,000,000. Subsequent 
alterations have increased the cost to $21,000,000. The third largest sus- 
pension bridge in existence, in the field of bridge engineering it is the 
crowning triumph of the nineteenth century, and is one of the wonders 
of the world. 

The bridge was designed by John A. Roeblmg, the builder of the 
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and others. While engaged in the 
preliminary work he met his death. He was succeeded by his son, 
William A. Roebling, who in turn was injured by a fire in one of the 
caissons and became a permanent invalid. He was removed to a resi- 
dence on the heights of Brooklyn, where, with indomitable resolution, 
he watched the details of construction from his window by the aid of 
a telescope, and, assisted by his wife, directed the progress of the work 
to its successful completion. 

The bridge consists of a central river span from tower to tower, two 
land spans from towers to anchorages, and the land approach on either 
side. The channel span from tower to tower is 1,505 feet 6 inches — the 
third single span in the world. Each land span is 930 feet. The Man- 
hattan approach is 1,562 feet 6 inches; the Brooklyn approach 971 feet. 
The total length of the bridge is 5,989 feet, and with the extensions, 
6,537 feet. (A mile is 5,280 feet.) The towers are 278 feet high above 
high water, from water to roadway 119 feet, from roadway to roof 
coping 159 feet. The floor at the tower is 119 feet; the clear height at 

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center of span 135 feet above the water. The width is 85 feet. The 
cables are 15^ inches in diameter, and 3,578 feet 6 inches in length. 

The towers rest upon caisson foundations. The Manhattan caisson 
rests on bedrock 78 feet below high water mark, the Brooklyn one on 
a clay bottom 45 feet down. The caissons are of a size which was be- 
fore unknown; the Manhattan 171 x 102 feet, the Brooklyn 168x102 
feet. Each weighs 7,000 tons, and is filled with 8,000 tons of concrete. 
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joined by connecting walls up to the roadway and arched above. At 
high water line the towers are 140 x 159 feet, at the roof course 136 x 
153 feet. The New York ends of the four cables are imbedded in an 
anchorage 930 feet back of the tower; the other ends are fastened in 
the corresponding anchorage on the Brooklyn side. 

The Manhattan Bridge spans the East River north of the Brooklyn 
Bridge. The Manhattan terminal is at the Bowery and Grand street; 
the Brooklyn end opens on Nassau near Bridge street. The river span 
is 1,470 feet, each land span is 725 feet, the Manhattan approach 2,067 
feet, Brooklyn approach 1,868 feet — total length of roadway 6,855 feet. 
The towers are 322 feet above mean high water mark. The cost was 
$24,000,060. 

The Williamsburg Bridge, from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Grand 
street, Manhattan, is the greatest suspension bridge in the world, with 
a channel span of 1,600 feet, a length of 7,200 feet between terminals, a 
height of 135 feet at the center, and towers 335 feet. The bridge is 118 
feet wide and carries four trolley and two cable tracks, two roadways 
and two foot walks. The cost was $12,000,000. 

The Queensboro Bridge extends across the East River from East 
Fifty-ninth street, in the Borough of Manhattan, to Ravenswood, in the 
Borough of Queens, and is supported by two piers rising from Black- 
well's Island, In weight and carrying capacity it is the greatest canti- 
lever bridge in the world. The length of the bridge proper is 3,724 feet 
6 inches; the entire length, including the approaches, is 8,231 feet. The 
Manhattan approach, built chiefly of masonry, 1,051 feet in length, ex- 
tends to a pier on the river edge. Here the truss construction begins 
with the shore arm, 470 feet in length, of the westerly cantilever. The 
river span west of the island consists of two cantilever arms, each 591 
feet in length, making a total westerly river span of 1,182 feet, dimen- 
sions exceeded only by the other New York structures, the Brooklyn 
Bridge with a span of 1,595 feet, the Williamsburg Bridge, 1,600 feet, 
and Scotland's great bridge across the Frith of Forth, 1,710 feet. The 
span between the two piers on Blackwell's Island is 630 feet; the river 
span east of the island is 984 feet; the shore arm of the easterly canti- 
lever is 459 feet; the Long Island approach is 3,455 feet. The super- 
structure is carried on masonry towers which are 185 feet in height 
above the bottom chord. The clear height of the bridge above mean 
high water is 135 feet. The carrying capacity is enormous. There are 
two floors, the lower one 86 feet wide between railings, the upper one 
67 feet. The lower floor carries a roadway 56 feet wide for street and 
vehicular traffic, and having two trolley tracks; and two other trolley 
tracks are carried on extensions of the floor beams. On the upper floor 
is provision for four elevated tracks and two 13-foot sidewalks. The 
sustaining strength of the bridge has been calculated for the upbearing 
of 250 rapid transit cars carrying 30,000 passengers, 300 trolley cars with 
30,000 passengers, a congested traffic on the promenades of 55,000 persons, 
and on the roadway of 100,000 — a total of 215,000. The bridge was de- 
signed by Gustav Lindenthal. Its cost was $20,000,000. 



Grace Church. 



GRACh Church, set in the bend at Tenth street and closing the vista 
from the south, is one of the most familiar and most highly cherished 
of the landmarks of Broadway. It is a beautiful structure of white 
limestone, with marble spire, in the Decorated Gothic, and was designed 
by James Renwick, the architect of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Gustered 
about the church is a group of buildings, which are harmonious with it 
in design; even the high wall of the business building adjoining has been 
made to comport with the rest, and all these, with the rectory yard with 
its lawn and shrubbery, make a picture very grateful to thousands of 
eyes every day. The church door is always open, and to turn from the 
bustle of Broadway into the hush of the aisles is like finding the shelter 
of a great rock where the uproar of the wind is stilled. The interior is 
rich in sculptured decoration, and the memorial windows are exquisite 
examples of stained glass. The great chancel window has for its subject 
the Te Deum; in the transepts are the Saints, and the Patriarchs and 
Prophets. The altar and reredos were given by Miss Catherine L. Wolfe. 
The porch is a memorial, and so is each one of the ten bells of the 




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chimes in the tower ; the great bell bears the name of Rev. Thomas House 
Taylor, for thirty-three years the rector. The rectory is connected with 
the church by Grace House, in which are the vestry and clergy rooms 
and a library and reading room; on the south is the Chantry, where a 
week-day afternoon service is held. Grace House and the Chantry were 
given by Miss Wolfe. In the rear is the Grace Memorial House, given 
by Hon. Levi P. Morton, in memory of his wife; a day nursery for 
small children is maintained here. In the rectory yard the great terra 
cotta vase was brought from Rome, where it was discovered 40 feet 
below the surface in excavations for St. Paul's Church. The sun dial 
has a pedestal fashioned from two of the pinnacles of Grace Church as 
first built at Broadway and Rector street in 1809. The present edifice 
was completed in 1846. A tablet in the right entrance records that the 
church stands on ground which was owned by Henry Brevoort (died 
1841), who had derived it in unbroken descent from the earliest colonists 
of the New Netherlands. It was this Henry Brevoort who in 1836 pre- 
vented the cutting through of Eleventh street from Broadway to Fourth 
avenue; his house stood in the line of the proposed street, and he suc- 
cessfully resisted the projected opening. The bend in Broadway at this 
point was caused by a deflection of the street to meet the old-time junc- 
tion of the Bowery and the Bloomingdale road at a point now at Broad- 
way and Seventeenth Street. 

On the south of the building is Grace Church Open Air Pulpit, over- 
looking the Huntington Gose, a bit of greensward and garden, dedicated 
to the memory of Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington, who was for many 
years rector. Services are held here every Wednesday at 12 130 P. M., 
to which the public is invited. 




THE WASHINGTON ARCH. 
Washington Square and Fifth Avenue. 



Union Square. 



For the imiiper and the stranger dead there must be potter's fields. To 
the successive reservation of such burial places on Manhattan Island we 
owe Washington, Union and Madison squares and Bryant Park. Each 
of them lay originally beyond the city limits, was overtaken by the 
growth of the town, and its use was abandoned; then each in time be- 
came a public park with trees and lawns and winding walks and foun- 
tains and flowers and statues and nursemaids and children. 

Union Square lies between Broadway and Fourth avenue, Fourteenth 
and Seventeenth streets. Broadway makes a bend here, and the cars go 
around a sharp curve, to which the disasters of the earl> days of the 
cable system gave the significant name of "Deadman's Curve." Here 
southeast of the park stands H. K. Browne's bronze statue of Abraham 
Lincoln. The curb bears the words of the Second Inaugural: "With 
malice towards none, with charity for all." Across the Square, the eques- 
trian bronze statue of Washington (by the same sculptor) stands close 
by the spot where General Washington was received by the citizens when 
he entered the city on its evacuation by the British, Nov. 25, 1783. Fac- 
ing south on Broadway is the statue of Lafayette, which was erected 
by French residents in 1876, with the dedication: "To the City of New 
York, France, in remembrance of sympathy in time of trial, 1870-71.'' 
The reference is to the period of the Franco-Prussian War. Lafayette 
is represented as offering his sword to America, 1776; and his words 
are engraved on the pedestal : "As soon as I heard of American Inde- 
pendence, my heart was enlisted." The bronze statue is by Bartholdi, of 
Statue of Liberty fame. In the west of the Square is the James Fountain, 
designed by Dunndorf and given to the city by D. Willis James. It is 
a much admired bronze group of a mother and her two children. The 
fountain in the center of the Square flowed for the first time Oct. 14. 
1842, on the occasion of the Croton Water Celebration, when a pro- 
cession seven miles long filed past it in review by Governor Seward. In 
season there is in the basin a fine display of water lilies. Fourteenth 
street leads west to Fifth avenue and Sixth avenue, and east to the 
Academy of Music and Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall is owned by 
the Tammany Society, a benevolent organization founded in 1789. It 
took the name from Tammany, a friendly and popular chief of the Dela- 
ware tribe of Indians ; and it was this chief, who gave to one of the 
tribes for a totem the tiger, which was afterward adopted by the Tam- 
many Society. The Tammany Hall General Committee is a political 
organization which occupies Tammany Hall as headquarters; it is dis- 
tinct from the Tammany Society. 

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Madison Square. 



Beautiful as a park, with its trees and lawns and fountain and statues, 
the Square is set amid distinguished surroundings. On the west is the 
Fifth Avenue Building, on the historic Fifth Avenue Hotel site. In the 
northeast the Madison Square Garden lifts its graceful tower with the 
gilded Diana poised on the pinnacle. On the east is the Appellate Court 
House, described on a following page. 

The edifice of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church (the pulpit of 
Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst) with its massive columned portico, tiled dome 
and gold lantern is in design and liberal use of color a noteworthy de- 
parture from the Gothic style of the old church, with spire dwarfed by 
the surrounding skyscrapers. The Metropolitan Life's stately home is 
one of the largest office buildings in existence; one should not fail to 
see the white marble court at the Madison Square entrance and the great 
central hall. The Square is dominated by the Metropolitan Tower, one 
of the architectural wonders of the world, and by the Fuller Building, 
which stands at the 23d street intersection of Broadway and Fifth 
avenue, two of the most famous streets in the world. The building is 
popularly called the Flatiron, because the plot on which it stands is of 
flatiron shape, with the rounded point toward Madison Square. "The 
Ship" would be a sobriquet quite as fitting, for from Madison Square the 
structure has the semblance of an immense ship, bow on, about to plow 
its way through the Square. From viewpoints far up on Fifth avenue 
the Flatiron towers up impressively. The land cost $800,721, and the 
building, including site, $4,000,000. It is 300 feet high, with twenty 
stories, and 456 offices above the fourth floor. 

On the south side of the square, east a few doors from Broadway, 
are the American Art Galleries. On Twenty-sixth street, at Madison 
Manhattan Qub, a leading Democratic organization. The large office 
and loft buildings surrounding the square are significant of the steady 
and resistless northward march of business on Manhattan Island. 

In the northeast corner of the Square is Bissel's bronze statue of 
Chester Alan Arthur, Twenty-first President of the United States of 
America. Vice-President Arthur succeeded to the Presidency after the 
assassination of President Garfield in 1881. In the southwest, near 
Twenty-third street, is the statue of RoscoE Conkling, Senator from 
New York, 1867-81. The figure is of bronze, by Ward, and represents 
the orator in the attitude so familiar to his audiences; we may hear 
him as when in a political convention he stilled the opposition uproar 
with the words, "The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb." The 
memorial was erected by friends on the spot where bewildered and over- 
come in the terrible blizzard of March 12, 1888, he fell exhausted, and 
suffered exposure which resulted in his death. Conklin and Arthur were 

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closely associated in public life and were warm friends; it is a suggestive 
fact that the chance circumstance of a winter's storm should have caused 
their memorials to be given place here so near together. 

The drinking fountain at the southeast corner, designed by Miss Emma 
Stebbins, was given by Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, whose benefac- 
tions to New York's religious, educational, art and charitable objects 
aggregated $2,000,000. 

The memorial of William H. Seward occupies a donspicuous position 
in the southwest facing Broadway. It is of bronze, by Randolph Rogers, 
and represents the statesman seated in a Senatorial chair, with pen in 
hand. Those who knew the living Seward aver that the legs were not 
the prominent features here presented; on the contrary, he is spoken 
of as a man who was "all head and no legs." Seward was Governor 




Broadway. 



Fifth Avenue. 



THE FLATIRON^. 
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68 :; NEW YORK. 

of New York, United Sute» Senator, and Secretary of State of tht 
United States under Lincoln. 

The most notable adornment of the Square, and the one which ranks 
as one of the best examples of contemporary sculpture possessed by the 
city, is the memorial of Admiral David Glascoe Farragut, by Augustus 
St. Gaudens. It stands in the northwest comer of the Square, facing 
Fifth avenue. The Admiral is represented as standing upon the deck of 
his ship, with field-glass in hand, and coat-skirt flying in the wind. The 
sturdy pose and erect, rugged figure give fine expression to the character 
of the man who took the fleet past the forts in Mobile Bay, and "whose 
name will ever stir like a trumpet the hearts of his grateful countrymen." 
The pedestal, designed by Stanford White, is in the form of a bench 
with high curving back ; in the center is an admiral's sword ; waving lines 
suggest the sea, and on either side are graceful female figures in low 
relief personifiying Courage and Patriotism. The memorial inscription 
reads : 

That the memory ol a darlnc and lacaclotti commander and gentle great-ievled 
man, whose life from childhood waa clTen to his country, but who served her 
supremely In the war for the Union, 18(1-1815, may be f reserved and honored; 
and that they who come after him and who will love him se much may see him as 
he was seen by friend and foe, his countrymen have set u§ this monument A. D. 
MDCCCLXZXI. 

The chief events of Farragut's life are outlined in the biographical in- 
scription, which reads: 

Bom near EnozviUe, Tennessee, July 5, 1801. Midshipman, 1810. Battle of Essex 
and Phoebe, March 28, 1814. Lieutenant, 1825. Commander, 1851. Captain, 1855. 
Battle of Ifew Orleans, April 23, 1862. Rear-Admiral, 18i2. Battle of Mobile Bay, 
August 5, 1864. Vlce-Admiral, December 23, 1864. First Admiral of the United States 
of America, July 26, 1866. Died at Portsmouth, Hew Hampshire, August 4, 1870. 

The statue was presented by the Farragut Memorial Association. An 
interesting circumstance of the dedication in i88i was the presence of 
three of the sailors of the Hartford. At the moment of presentation 
John H. Knowles, the sailor who lashed Farragut to the mast in the 
battle of Mobile Bay, assisted by J. B. Millner, who was also on the 
flagship Hartford, drew aside the drapings from the statue; and B. S. 
Osborne, the sailor who hoisted the colors of the flagship as she entered 
the engagement, displayed an admiral's flag as a signal for an admiral's 
salute of seventeen guns. 

Opposite the Farragut statue, in the triangular plot at the parting of 
Broadway and Fifth Avenue, is the Worth Monument, erected by the 
city in 1857 over the tomb of Major-General William Jenkins Worth, a 
hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. General Worth was 
the first to plant the flag of the United States on the Rio Grande, and 
the first to enter the city of Mexico. He died in Texas in ifiLjg; in 1857 
his remains were interred here. The granite monument bears a bronze 
portrait, the legends Duett amor patria ("Love of country guides") and 
"Honor the Brave/' and the names of the battles in which General 
Worth had part. 



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Fifth avenue is the route of the 
great civic and military parades, 
and the reviewing stand is usual- 
ly placed opposite the Worth 
Monument. 

Metropolitan Tower. — On the 
east of the Square rises the 
tower of the Metropolitan In- 
surance Company's home. From 
the booklet given to visitors we 
quote: "The dimensions of the 
Tower are 7^^ feet on Madison 
avenue and 85 feet on Twenty- 
fourth street; the total height 
is 700 feet. In general design 
and outline it is modeled after 
the famous Campanile of St. 
Mark at Venice, which was taken 
as a prototype, but with such de- 
viations as were necessary to 
have the Tower in architectural 
harmony with the main building. 
"The highest lookout is reached 
at the balcony of the fiftieth 
story, 660 feet above the sidewalk 
level, from which vantage point 
a most comprehensive and 
unique panoramic view may be 
obtained. Within range are vis- 
ible the homes of over one-six- 
teenth of the entire population 
of the United States." 

TowER Clock. — One of the in- 
teresting and unique features of 
the building is the mammoth 
clock, the largest four-dial tower 
clock in the world, located 346 
feet above the sidewalk, and vis- 
ible far and wide over the city. 

The dials are built up of rein- 
forced concrete faced with vitre- 
ous blue and white mosaic tile. 
Each dial is 26 feet 6 inches in 
diameter. The figures on the dial 
are 4 feet high, and the minute 
marks loj^ inches in diameter. 

The minute-hand measures 17 
feet from end to end, 12 feet 
center to point, and weighs 1,000 
pounds; the hour-hand measures 




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13 feet 4 inches from end to end, 8 feet 4 inches from center to point, 
and weighs 700 pounds. The hands are built on iron frames, sheathed 
with copper, and revolve on roller bearings. 

The driving-power of this huge mechanism is electricity, none of the 
many devices connected therewith requiring any manual operation, the 
entire installation being automatic. 

The master clock, located in the Directors* Room on the second floor 
not only controls the entire tower clock outfit, but about 100 other 
clocks throughout the building, as well as several program instruments 
for sounding various schedules of bells in the different departments. 

Through the medium of a special transmitter, minute impulses are 
sent to the tower clock mechanism on the twenty-sixth floor, keeping 
them in exact synchronism with the master clock ; and at each quarter- 
hour electrical impulses are transmitted to the electric hammers on the 
forty-sixth story, and simultaneously are heard the notes of the old 
historic Cambridge chimes, composed by Handel. Following the fourth 
or last quarter, the hours are sounded on the 7,000-pound bell, with an 
impact of about 200 pounds. This blow, struck on such a large bell, 
may be heard many miles away. 

The chime comprises four bells, the largest weighing 7,000 pounds 
(key of B flat) ; the second, 3,000 pounds (E flat) ; the third, 2,000 
pounds (F natural), and the smallest, 1,500 pounds (key of G). They 

are mounted on pedestals between 
the marble columns outside the 
forty-sixth story, and are said to 
be twice as high above the side- 
walk as any other large bells in 
the world. 

As the evening darkness draws 
near, at any predetermined hour 
for which the mechanism may be 
adjusted, hundreds of electric 
lights appear back of the dial 
numerals, the minute-marks and 
the entire length of the hands, 
all of which are brilliantly illuminated with splendid effect— a feature 
never produced by any other clock in the world. 

Simultaneously with the illumination of the hands and dials, an auto- 
matically actuated switch lights up a great electric octagonal lantern, 
eight feet in diameter, located at the top of the Tower, from which 
powerful electric flashlights, marking the hours in the evening, may be 
seen for a great distance, far beyond any possible transmission of sound, 
the time being signalled therefrom as follows: 

Each of the quarter-hours is flashed in red and the hours in white 
light. One red flash for the quarter, two red flashes for the half, three 
red flashes for three-quarters, and four red flashes for the even hour— 
these latter flashes followed by a number of white flashes marking the 
hour. 




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The Appellate Court House. 

The Court House of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of 
the City of New York is on the east of Madison Square at Madison 
avenue and Twenty-fifth street. It was completed in 1900 at a cost, in- 
cluding the furnishing, of $750,000. The exterior is decorated with sculp- 
tures, and the interior is rich in marbles and mural paintings. ^ 

The caryatides, by T. S. Clarke, which support the cornice of the 
Madison avenue front, represent the Four Seasons. The group above 
(by Karl Bitter) represents Peace. The statues on the pedestals of the 
balustrade are of the Great Law Givers: Alfred, Confucius, Justinian, 
Lycurgus, Mahomet, Manu Vaivasvata, Moses, St. Louis, Solon, Zoroaster. 

Flanking the entrance on Twenty-fifth street are two large seated 
statues of Wisdom and Force, by F. W. Ruckstuhl. The pedestals bear 
the inscriptions : "Every law not based on wisdom is a menace to the 
State." "We must not use force till just laws are defied." 

The bas-relief of the pediment (by C. H. Niehaus) represents the 
Triumph of Law over Anarchy; and above is a group (by D. C. French) 
symbolizing Justice. Reclining on the window pediments are figures of 
Morning, Noon, Evening, Night, by M. M. Schwartzott. 

The entrance hall has a wainscoting of Sienna marble and pilasters of 
the same material, with bronze gold capitals. The frieze spaces are filled 
with paintings, and the ceiling is modeled in two shades of gold. The 
Court Room is treated in the same manner. The bench, screen and dais 
are of dark oak, very richly carved. The stained glass dome and windows 
are inscribed with the names of these eminent jurists: Butler, Choate, 
Clinton, Fish, Hamilton, Jay, Kent, Legare, Livingston, Marcy, Marshall, 
O' Conor, Ogden, Pinckney, Shaw, Spencer, Story, Taney, Van Buren, 
Webster. The mural paintings of the two apartments are symbolical 
and allegorical. The following description of the series is adapted from 
one published by the architect of the building: 

In the Entrance Hall the frieze on the north wall, facing the entrance 
(by H. S. Mowbray), represents the Transmission of the Law. The 
subject is illustrated by eight groups in the following order: Mosaic, 
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Norman, Common Law and Modern 
Law, representing distinct periods that have had their influence on our 
own. The groups are united in each case by an allegorical winged figure 
to represent their transmission from one age to another. 

The frieze on the right-hand side, on the easterly wall of the entrance 
hall (by Robert Reid), represents Justice, supported by the Guardians of 
the Law with sword and fasces. She gives Peace and Prosperity to the 
Arts and Sciences. She holds the symbols of the Law, sword, book and 
scales. Peace is followed by Education teaching the youth, the book being 
lighted by a lamp held by Religion. Prosperity is followed by Drama 
(Tragedy holding the mask of Comedy), and Music with harp. The 
panel on the south vv^all is the same subject continued. From the left, 
in order, are Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Fame. 

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72 NEW YORK. 

The frieze to the left, on the westerly wall (by W. L. Metcalf), rep- 
resents Justice. The two lunettes between the entrance doors on the 
southerly wall (by C. Y. Young) represent Law and Equity. 

In the Court Room the central panel (by H. O. Walker) represents 
Wisdom, attended by Learning, Experience, Humility and Love; and 
by Faith, Patience, Doubt and Inspiration. The figure of Wisdom is 
intended to personify Biblical or Spiritual wisdom. The figure of Love 
is meant to carry out the sentiment of the figure of Wisdom. The 
panel to the right (by E. H. Blashfield) represents The Powers of the 
Law. The panel to the left (by Edward Simmons) represents Justice 
of the Law. The two frieze panels to the right and left (by George 
W. Maynard) represent the seals of the City and State. The long 
frieze on the west wall, behind the dais of the Justices (by Kenyon 
Cox) represents generally the Reign of Law. The small frieze panels 
between the pilasters and the windows (by Joseph Lauber) represent 
Moderation, Veneration, Perspicuity, Eloquence, Reticence, Research, 
Unity, Fortitude, Justice, Truth, Philosophy, Courage, Patriotism, 
.Logic, Knowledge and Prudence. The four end panels represent the 
four Cardinal virtues. 

The Madison Square Garden occupies the block bounded by Fourth 
and Madison avenues and Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. 
Its dimensions are 465 x 200 feet, and it is the largest amusement build- 
ing in America. The tower springs from the Twenty-sixth street 
front, rising 249 feet with unbroken lines, and then by a succession of 
belfry stages of diminishing size tapering to the pinnacle upon which 
rests the shining figure of Diana with flying draperies and crescent 
bow, 356 feet above the sidewalk. 



Fifth Avenue. 



Fifth Avenue is New York's fashionable thoroughfare, famed for 
its costly residences and the people who live in them, its hotels, clubs, 
churches and libraries, and the brilliant social display which gives to 
the street its dominant air. Beginning at Washington Square on the 
south, it extends north six miles, past the Central Park to the Harlem 
River. 

Washington Square has a statue of the Italian patriot Giuseppe Gari- 
baldi, presented by Italian residents of the United States. A bronze bust 
erected by engineers of America and Europe commemorates Alexander 
L. Holley as "foremost among those whose genius and energy established 
in America and improved throughout the world the manufacture of 
Bessemer steel." The large building east of the Square belongs to the 
New York University, which has here certain of its schools. 

The Washington Arch, spanning the drive at the beginning of Fifth 
avenue, is a perpetuation of the one designed by Stanford White for the 
celebration in 1889 of the centennial of Washington's Inauguration as 



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first President. It is of white marble, 77 feet in height, and has a span 
of 30 feet. Its cost of $128,000 was defrayed by popular subscription. 
The words from Washington's Inaugural Address are engraved upon it: 
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The 
event is in the hands of God." 

The aristocratic mansions on the north occupy part of the Randall 
farm, which in 1801 Capt. Robert Richard Randall bequeathed for a 
Snug Harbor for superannuated sailors. The Harbor is situated on 
Staten Island, and is still supported by the old farm, which, extending 
north and east, yields a rental income of $500,000 a year. These North 
Washington square houses have about them a fine flavor of yesterday, 
and preserve an old-fashioned air which accentuates their dignity as 
conservers of the old-time gentility. This small section at the begin- 
ning of the avenue has maintained a residential character and cxclusivc- 
ness, of which the avenue to the north has been robbed by the inexorable 
encroachment of business. From loth street to 23d, loft buildings and 
other commercial structures have supplanted the old-time brownstone 
fronts; and from here to 42d street and gradually extending north the 
avenue is lined with shops which make it the richest shopping district 
in the world. 

At 23d Street the avenue crosses Broadway and borders Madison 
square (see page 67). On the right at 23d street is the huge Flatiron 
Building. On the left is the Fifth Avenue Building, and the vista 
of Broadway stretches away to the north. Murray Hill begins at 34th 
street. The district so designated, including the avenue and the side 
streets, was long the most fashionable residence section of New York. 

The name was derived from the farm of Robert Murray, a Pennsylvania Quaken 
who came here before the Revolution, and whose house, "Inclenberg/' was on the 



74 ^EW YORK. 

Boston High K.oad, at the present intersection of Thirty-sixth street and Madison 
avenue, one block east from Fifth avenue. The Murrays are remembered also for 
a signal service to the American troops in 1776. On Sept. 15, 1776, Washington's 
forces being in retreat from the lower part of the city, and the British seeking to 
intercept them, General Howe and his staff halted at "Inclenberg" to inquire how 
long since the Americans had passed. As a matter of fact, it was only ten minutes, 
but the good old Quaker lady assured the British officers that so much time had 
elapsed that pursuit was nopeless; and the day being insufferably hot, she invited 
them to alight and refresh themselves. Then with cake and wine and woman's wit 
she entertained them and detained them two hours, during which time the Americans 
made good their retreat to Harlem Heights. A son of these Murrays of Murray Hill 
was Lindley Murray, who published a famous "Grammar of the English Language" 
in 1795, and with reference to whom it is often said colloquially that some lapse 
of speech "would make Lindley Murray turn in his grave." 

At 39th street is the Union League Club, organized by Republicans 
in 1863 to assist the Union cause. It is perhaps the New York club 
which has the widest national reputation. It is one of the largest in the 
city, with a membership of 1,800. The Queen Anne Oub House cost 
$400,000. 

The New York Public Library occupies the site of the old Croton 
distributing reservoir, extending from 40th to 42d street. The building 
contains the general administration offices, the central reference collec- 
tion of over a million volumes, and a circulation collection of 30,000 
volumes. It was built by the city at a cost of about $9,000,000. Carrere 
and Hastings were the architects. The cornerstone was laid on Nov. 10, 
1902; the building was opened to the public on May 23, 1911. 

The Library is in form of a rectangle, 390 feet long and 270 feet deep, 
built around two inner courts, each about eighty feet square. The area 
covered is about 115,000 square feet. The material is largely Vermont 
marble. There are seats for 768 readers in the main reading room, and 
seats in other public rooms bring the total capacity up to 1,760. In the 
main stack room are 334,530 feet (63.3 miles) of shelving, with capacity 
for 2,500,000 volumes. Book stacks in the special reading rooms amount 
to about 70.000 feet, with capacity for 500,000 volumes. The main read- 
ing room, on the third (top) floor of the building, is reached by elevator. 
Subject to a few simple regulations, any person may have brought to 
him, for consultation within this room, practically any book in the build- 
ing. For detailed investigation special reading rooms are provided in 
various parts of the building, where a reader may have direct access to 
the books there shelved. A visitor who wishes a definition, direction or 
similar brief summary will probably find it most convenient to use the 
few reference books in the circulation room (80) opposite the 42(1 street 
entrance. If these fail, he will have to go to the main reading room. A 
visitor who wishes to spend an hour in casual or aimless browsing may 
do so in the circulation room (80). or among the books on open shelves 
in the main reading room, or among the current periodicals in the room 
at the southeast corner of the first floor Cm). 

42d street leads east to the Grand Central Terminal. The Temple 
Emanu-el at 43d street is one of the largest Jewish synagogues in the 
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Photo © Brown Bros. 

West of the avenue in this vicinity are many clubs, the Century and 
Columbia University in 43d street; the St. Nicholas, Harvard, Cornell, 
D. K. E., the Bar Association and others in 44th street, and Yale 
in East 44th street. On the northeast corner of 44th street is Del- 
monico's, in an earlier day the most famous restaurant in America, 
and one of the best-known in the v^orld. 



"Delmonico and Brothers," records Mr. Chas. H. Haswell, "opened a coffee, 
cake and confectionery shop in the year 1828 at No. 23 William street, in a single 
room, in which they and the female members of their family dispensed bon-bons, 
coffee, liquor pates and confections." In 1842 John Delmonico, then the head of the 
house, died of apoplexy, caused by his excitement at firing at a deer; and the 



76 NEW YORK. 

"bereft" but thrifty family caused to be printed this notice: "A CARD: The widow, 
brother and nephew Lorenzo of the late much respected John Delmonico tender 
their heartfelt thanks to the friends, benevolent societies and Northern Liberty Fire 
Engine Company, who accompanied his remains to his last home. The establish- 
ment will be re-opened to-day under the same firm of Delmonico Brothers, and no 
pains of the bereft family will be spared to give general satisfaction. Restaurant, 
bar-room and private dinners, No. 2 South William Street; furnished rooms No. 7b 
Broad Street, as usual." 

In 44th Street west of the avenue are the Harvard, Yale, St. Nicho- 
las, Twelfth Night, and New York Yacht Clubs, and Bar Association. 

The Windsor Arcade site between 46th and 47th was occupied by the 
ill-fated Windsor Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1899 with a 
terrible loss of life. The house on the northeast corner of 47th street, 
No. 579, is the home of Miss Helen Gould. At No. 617 is the Demo- 
cratic Club, the social headquarters of the leaders of Tammany Hall. 
At 50th street is the Buckingham Hotel. St. Patrick's Cathedral 
occupies the block from 50th to 51st street; in the rear of the Cathedral 
is the Archiepiscopal Residence, the home of the Archbishop. The Union 
Club has a sumptuous home on the corner, fronting on Sist street. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest and most beautiful church edifice in 
Vmerica, and holds high rank as an example of decorated and geometric style of 
Gothic architecture to which belong the cathedrals of Rheims, Amiens and Cologne, 
on the Continent; and the naves of York, Westminster and Exeter in England. The 
architect was James Renwick, who designed the Smithsonian Institution in Wash- 
ington. The corner-stone was laid August 15, 1858, and the edifice was dedicated 
May 25, 1879. The material above the granite base course is white marble. The 
cost of the land was over $60,000, and of the building $2,000,000. The seating capacity 
of the pews is 2,500. The exterior length is 332 feet, breadth 174 feet, height of 
spires 330 feet. Of the seventy windows, thirty-seven are figured, their subjects 
drawn from Scripture and the lives of the saints; and twenty more are filled with 
cathedral stained glass. The principal one of the figured series is the six-bayed 
window of St. Patrick. The High Altar at the east end of the central aisle, has 
a reredos 32 feet in width and 50 feet in height, of carved Poitiers stone; in the 
center tower of the reredos is a statue of Christ, and in the flanking towers are 
statues of St. Peter and St. Paul. The altar is of purest Italian marble inlaid with 
alabaster and precious marbles. The front is divided into panels representing in 
bas-reliefs the Last Supper, the Carrying of the Cross, the Agony in the Garden; 
and niches contain statues of the Four Evangelists. The altar tabernacle is of 
marble richly decorated, and has a door of gilt bronze set with emeralds and garnets. 
The high altar was a gift from Cardinal McCloskey, who, dying in 1885, was 
sntombed beneath it; and here also lies Archbishop Hughes. Under the floor of the 
sanctuary near the high altar is a crypt for the entombing of the Archbishops of 
New York. The Cathedral is open during the day. 

On the upper side of 52d street is the residence of W. K. Vanderbilt. 
At 53d street is the ultra-fashionable St. Thomas's Church, Protestant 
Episcopal. On the lower side of 54th street are the two houses (Nos. 
680 and 684) built for daughters of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, Mrs. W. 
Seward Webb and Mrs. H. McK. Twombley. 

On the upper side of 54th street is the University Club. The mem- 
bership is composed of graduates of universities and colleges. The 
sculptured seals of 18 colleges are employed for exterior decorations. 



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THE CORNELIUS VANDERBILT HOUSE. 

At 57th Street are the homes of Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt (north- 
west), Herman Oelrichs (northeast), Mrs. C. P. Huntington (south- 
east). 

The CoRNELiuis Vanderbilt House is for size and grandeur one ot the most 
notable on the Avenue. It extends from 57th to 58th streets, and has a frontage on 
the side streets of 125 feet. The style is that of the ChSteau de Boise in France; 
and the exterior effect is much enhanced by the garden which borders the Avenue 
side and by the porte-cochere on the 58th street end. The main entrance is on 58th 
street, and a feature of the interior is the great hall, finished in highly carved Caen 
stone, 42 feet broad, 50 feet long, and extending to the top of the house, with a wind- 
ing staircase, also of Caen stone. The rooms on the first floor include the large salon 
decorated in the style of Louis XV,, a smaller salon in the style off Louis XVI., the 
library finished in mahogany, the grand ball room, which occupies^ a sp^ce of 64 by 50 
feet and is 40 feet high, and dining, breakfast and smoking roomis. Tbe house has 
been described as "a veritable palace, being built on;.the plan of those in Europe, 
and its grand diagnificence becomes apparent only on fete occasions. The niain floor, 
adapted especially for entertainment, with its grand stone hall, its great ball room, 
which is said to outshine in elegance and grandeur the state apartments of royalty, 
and its series of large connecting rooms, disclose an arrangement architecturally 
perfect and harmonious. The elaborate carvings, decdrations and furnishings have 
been made and selected by experts in the various branches of architecture and 
decoration, with a view to artistic effect and elegance, and the result is a vast floor 
of magnificent stateliness." Cornelius Vanderbilt died in 1899. 

At 58th and Sgth streets is the PIaza, an open square, which it re- 
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ar€,:the hotels Savoy and Netherlapd; on,, the south the Cornelius 
Vanderbilt house;; on the west the , Piasza Hotel, and on, the north 
Central Park. The principal entrance to the Park is here; this is the 
town's fashionable drive, and in the afternoon we shall find a constant 
stream of equipages coming and going, and crowds of pedestrians and 
prornen^ders on the avenue and in the park. 






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ST. GAUDINS' STATUI OF SHIRMAN. 



The Metropolitan Club's House at 6oth street occupies m site which 
was once owned by the Duches of Marlborough. The building, of white 
marble, with Numidian marble halls, cost with the ground |i, 500,000, and 
is one of the finest club houses in the world. On account of the enor- 
mous fortunes possessed by the members, the club is known as the 
"Millionaires' Club." 

Next to the Metropolitan Qub is the residence of Elbridge T. Gerry, 
founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Mr. 
Gerry's is the first of the long succession of palatial residences fronting 
the Park above 60th street, which constitute what is popularly called 
"Miluonahes' Row." They are houses remarkable for size, diversified 
style, and the architectural effect of the exteriors; and yet more for the 
costliness, lavish luxury and magnificence of the interiors. Among the 
many notable residences we have space to mention but a few. 

At 65th street the double house was* the home of Mrs. William Astor 

*The revision of the Standard Guide from year to year involves the frequent 
changing of "is the home" to "was the home," with respect to these Fifth Avenue 
mansions, and the repeated employment of the adjective "late" as a characterization 
of their whilom owners. 



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THI MITROPOLITAN CLUB. 

and Col. John Jacob Astor, lost with the Titanic; the house belongs to 
Vincent Astor. At 66th street is the house which was built for the late 
H. O. Havemeyer. Colonel Oliver H. Payne lives in No. 852. No. 8S5 
is Perry Belmont's, and No. 856 H. O. Armour's. The house on the 
north corner of 67th street is George Gould's. No. 858, the double 
house long occupied by the late Isaac Stern, is noted for the rich 
interior effects, which are secured with choice marbles, rare woods and 
tapestries and hangings from the most famous looms. No. 864, which 
was owned by the late C. T. Yerkes, cost $3,000,000, and its $2,000,000 
collection of paintings and art treasures constituted the largest private 
art gallery in America. 

On the north side of 68th street. No. 871, was the home of William C. 
Whitney, who, after paying $650,000 for the house, remodeled and re- 
built the interior, and made it one which for beauty and costliness of 
decoration is believed to be without a rival in this country. 



It is furnished throughout in the Italian Renaissance style, tbe aim being to re> 
produce as nearly as possible a Venetian or Florentine palace of the days of Leonard! 
da Vinci and Michel Angelo. There is scarcely a modern piece of work to be seen, 
except the floors; the decorations are all original antiques collected abroad, and each 
the most perfect specimen that skill could select and money buy. The chimney- 
pieces are nearly all elaborate works in marble from old Italian palaces; the hang- 
infs are from similar sources; the ceilings of several rooms have been taken bodily 
from famous buildings in Europe, and the furniture and much of the woodwork are 
of a like character. In the principal hall a portrait of Charles I., by Van Dyk, 



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THE ANDREW CAgNEGIE HOOSE. 



hangs at one side of a short flight of steps, and a religious piece of Lorenzo Costa 
on the other. Between them is a splendid silver hanging lamp, a masterpiece' of 
eld Italian craftsmanship. The dining room walls are d^^red with sixteenth Gen- 
turn Italian wall paintings. The chimney-piece is a mlagiiificentp specimen of i^s 
kind, while the great bronze firedogs are said to be the finest in iynicrica,^ Iijuthe 
library the bookcases and paneling are of old oak, carved with an elaborateness of 
detail found in none except the work of Renaissance workmen. The ball roorhii 
reached by a corridor which is paneled with inlaid woods in quaint desij^h and o* 
very old workmanship. The ball room is pure Louis XIV. <i The walls are en,t»rcly 
covered with paneling in high relief, which was once in, the chatjjs^au of Ptii.cebus 
d' Albert, near Bordeaux. In the time of Lquis Philippe these paneli^gs were taken 
to a house in Paris, and from there they were brought to this counti*y! Every"' scrap 
of furniture in the room is also of the Louis Xt V. period, the ceiling; a'itd fltt<yf be'ifig 
the only modern portions of the apartment. — New York 'limes. ■.)!.• 

At 70th. street, recessed in the wall of Central Park/ is the Hunt 
Memorial. It consists of a bronze bust of "the architect, by DL G. 
French, with a curV^d stdnie berich. The dedication is:"To Richard 
Morris Hunt, Oct. 31, 1828— July 31, iSgSJ in recognition of his services 
in the cause of art in America, this memorial was erected by the Art 
Societies of America." 

On the south corner of 74th street is the immense brown stone house 
known as the Pickhardt House. 

A curious history attaches to the house. It was built, unbuilt and rebuilt by 
William Pickhardt, an eccentric millionaire dealer in chemicals, who became pos- 
sessed by an ambition to outdo the Stewart palace at 34th street. Architects ot 
Engl».nd, Germany and America were invited tp compete, and the plans of an Ameri- 
can were adopted. The stone for the walls was imported from quarries Atmx Mr. 
PiekliArdt't birthplace la Geraaay. Work wm bcc«a is 187S. After the fonndatloas 



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Had been finished at a cost of $100,000, 

Mr. Pickhardt changed his plans, and 

the work was interrupted for* year. 

When the walls of the first "story had 

been completed, there was another 
-•>chan|;(e^of plan, rlollowed by another 
g'jnprb longed interrup,tipn. The work then 
^ progressed until three stories had been 

builtj when another change was de- 
cided on, and the weary architect 

threw up his job. A contractor was 
^ employed to tear down two stories, and 
,sa new architect and new builder were 

put in charge. The builder was a 

German, and went to Germany on a 

vacation and died there. Another 

builder was found, and at last, in 

1889, after fourteen years of building, 

tearing down and rebuilding, and ex- 
penditure of over $1,000,0(X), the house 
' was rcfefed. ' Then Mr. Pickhardt con- 
^''iiludwl' that it iwas not what he wanted, 

and declared that he would never live 

in it. It stood vacant six years, and 

was then put up at auction and sold 

for $472,500. A few months later Mr, Pickhardt died. The new owner made some 

mofiftialterationSf and eventually the house was occupied. 

~ ; 'f'lie gilt-ribbed dome of the Hebrew Temple Beth-El at 76th street 

is one of the most effective architectural features of the neighborhood, 

and fia$ a conspicuous place in the vistas and views from the walks 

.and drives of Central Park. The interior is rich with columns and 

^arches of onyx. The land and the edifice cost $750,000. 

At 77th street is Senator W. A. Clark's mansion, one of the most 
conspicuous, examples of architectural riot in the city. 
At 82d street is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
At 90th street is the million-dollar residence which was the home 
^,"of Andrew, Cajnegie. It has the unusual feature of a spacious garden 
surroundmg it. 

Central Park Gates on Fifth avenue are at these streets : SQth, 64th 
(Menagerie), ^th, 72d, 79th, 82d (Museum of Art), 8sth, 90th, 96th, 
T02d, io6th and iiptlu 



RESIDENCE OF SENATOR W. A. CLARK. 



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Central Park. 



Central Park extends from 59th street north to iioth street, and from 
Fifth avenue west to Eighth avenue. It is two and one-half miles long 
and one-half mile wide. The area comprises 879 acres of diversified 
woodland, meadow, lawn, lakes and ponds; and the Park ranks as one 
of the most beautiful pleasure grounds in the world. There are 9J4 
miles of carriage roads, 5^ miles of bridle paths and 28^ miles of 
walks. The Park is reached by the Fifth avenue stages, Madison, Sixth 
and Eighth avenue and Broadway cars, the Sixth avenue elevated and 
the Subway to Columbus Circle. The principal entrance is the Scholar's 
Gate at Fifth avenue and 59th street. This is the beginning of the 
main drive through the Park. The several entrances are: 

Fifth Avenue — 59th, 64th, 67th, 72d, 79th, 8sth, 90th, 96th, I02d and 
iioth streets. Sixth Avenue — 59th and iioth streets. Seventh Avenue — 
59th and Iioth streets. Eighth Avenue (Central Park West) — 59th, 7ad, 
79th, 85th, 96th, looth, 105th and iioth streets. 

For a carriage tour of the Park one may enter by the Scholar's Gate 
and follow the main East Drive to the Marble Archway at the Mall, 
then the West Drive, with the Baseball Ground on the left and the 
Mall on the right, to the Terrace; thence past the Webster Statue on 
the West Drive to 79th street. Thence past the upper Croton Reservoir 
and the lawn tennis field to McGowan's Pass* and Mt. St. Vincent, and 
then turning south follow the East Drive to the Obelisk and Museum 
of Art; thence to the Fifth avenue gate at 79th street, and along the 
East Drive, having Fifth avenue on the left, and giving glimpses of the 
Conservatory Water, where the boys sail miniature yachts, and of Ward's 
fine statue of "The Pilgrim," a gift from the New England Society ta 
commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620. This brings one back 
to the Terrace Bridge, and from here the route is to the Scholar's Gate. 

A plan which will give a comprehensive seeing of the Park is to go 
over the carriage course as above to the Museum of Art, and then to 
complete the trip on foot, from the Museum visiting the upper Reservoir 
near by, then the Obelisk, Belvedere, Ramble, Lake, Terrace and Mall. 

Entering by the 59TH street gate at Fifth, Sixth, Seventh or Eighth 
avenues, and following the main walk toward the center of the Park, we 
come shortly to the Mall, which is the central place of concourse in the 
Park, a broad promenade flanked by green lawns and arched by double 

•The rocky defile of McGowan's Pass, named after a farmer who lived nearby, is 
associated with an incident of the Revolution. On Sept. 15, 1776, stragglers of the 
American troops passed through the Pass in their retreat to Harlem. The British 
in pursuit here met a patriot lad, Andrew McGowan, and pressed him into service to 
show the way the Americans had gone. He led the troopers a devious course over 
a wrong road, and thus by his reac^' wit gave the Americans time to escape. Mount 
St. Vincent was so called because St. Vincent's Convent stood hero boforo tho 
property was acquired for park purposes. 

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THE BETHESDA FOUNTAIN. 



rows of majestic elms. These elms, with their vast cathedral aisles, con- 
stitute the most imposing feature of the Park, and they are by far the 
finest thing New York has to show for trees. The Mall statues near 
the lower end are : replica of Sunol's Columbus, which stands on the 
Prado in Madrid; Shakespeare, by J. Q. A. Ward; Burns and Scott, by 
Steele, presented by resident Scotchmen; Fitz-Greene Halleck, by Wilson 
MacDonald. On the lawns west of the Mall are Ward's 'Indian Hunter" 
and Fratin's "Eagles and Goat." A colossal bust of Beethoven faces the 
music stand near the north end of the Mall, where concerts are given on 
Saturday and Sunday afternoons in summer. The Mall terminates at 
the Terrace, which overlooks the Lake, and with its stairways, elabor- 
ately carved with fruits and flowers and birds, is the chief architectural 
adornment of the Park. Broad flights of steps lead down to an espla- 
nade, in the center of which is the Bethesda Fountain, designed by 
Emma Stcbbins; the central figure represents the angel of the Pool of 
Bethesda; the smaller figures typify Health, "Peace, Temperance and 
Purity. The pleasure boats may be taken here or at the boat house near 
by for a trip around the Lake. From the Fountain, taking the walk to 
the left, following the Lake shore and crossing the Bow Bridge, we come 
to the Ramble, whose winding paths lead to the lower Croton Reservoir. 
At the southwest corner of the Reservoir, on the highest point of land 
in the Park, stands the Belvedere, whose tower gives a wide outlook over 
the Park and its surroundings. The prospect takes in the two reservoirs, 
St. Luke's Hospital in the north, the Palisades of the Hudson in the 
west and the hills of Long Island in the east. Skirting the Reservoir, 



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THE TERRACE STAIRWAYS. 



we come to the Obelisk, which stands on a knoll by the East Drive, neai 
the Museum of Art 

The Egyptian Obelisk is the object in the Park which many of us 
will esteem the one thing best worth seeing. Here we are face to face 
with antiquity. The monument was old when Moses read its inscriptions 
in honor of the Egyptian sun-god; and to-day it has behind it thirty- 
five centuries, during which, standing as an imperishable memorial of 
the Pharaohs, it has seen kings and empires rise and flourish and pass 
into oblivion. The Obelisk stood before the Temple of the Sun in 
Heliopolis (the City of the Sun), near Cairo, in Egypt, where it was 
erected in the sixteenth century, B. C, by Thothmes III., who reigned 
1591 to 1565. Two hundred years later Rameses II. (1385 to 1322), the 
Pharaoh of the Bible, added to it inscriptions setting forth his own 
majesty; and four centuries after another Pharaoh, Osarkon I., who 
lived about one thousand years B. C, recorded his own name along with 
those of Thothmes and Rameses. Our Obelisk and a companion shaft 
remained standing in Heliopolis until 12 B. C, when, Rome being mis- 
tress of the world, Augustus Caesar caused these monuments of the 
Pharaohs to be removed to Alexandria and there erected before the 
Temple of the Caesars. In the year 1877 t^c companion obelisk was re- 
moved to London and placed on the Thames Embankment. In the same 
year our Obelisk — known to the ancients first as Pharaoh's Needle and 
afterward as Cleopatra's Needle — was presented by the Khedive of 
Egypt to the United States. It was brought to America by Lieut.-Com. 
Henry H. Gorringe, U. S. N., and was erected on the present site in 



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1881. The cost of the removal was $102,576, which sum was contributed 

by William H. Vanderbilt. 

The Obelisk is a monolith, or single stone, of syenite, from the granite 

quarries of Syene, in Egypt, and it is so hard that modern stone-cutting 

instruments make no impression upon it. The shaft is 695^ feet high, 

7 feet 9 inches by 7 feet 8^ 
inches at the base, and weighs 
448,000 pounds. How the E^ryp- 
tians quarried it, transported it a 
thousand miles from Syene to 
Heliopolis, and erected it there 
is one of the unsolved mysteries 
of antiquity. 

The bronze crabs date from 
the time of Caesar. When the 
Obelisk was removed to Alex- 
andria, the base was injured; to 
repair the damage melted lead 
was poured into the crevices, and 
four crabs were placed at the 
corners. Only two of the crabs 
have come down to us; they are 
preserved in the Museum of Art 
The crabs now under the shaft 
were cast from these originals at 
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 
inscriptions on the claws in 
Greek and Latin were made by 
the Romans, to commemorate the 
removal to Alexandria. They 
read: "Barbarus, Governor of 
Egypt, erected [this monument] 
in the eighteenth year of the 
reign of Caesar. Pontius was the 
architect." The several inscrip- 
tions on the other claws sum- 
marize the history of the Obe- 
lisk. The base and pedestal were 
brought from Alexandria. The 
gilded zinc cap was put on the 
apex in 1893. The entire stone 
has been coated with paraffine to 
protect it against the weather, 
for the American climate has 
proved to be injurious. 

The hieroglyphics of the north, 

south and east faces may for the 

most part still be read; those on 

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away during the centuries by the blowing sands of the Libyan desert. 
On each face the central vertical column is the original inscription 
of Thothmes III.; the two side inscriptions are those of Rameses II.; 
and that of Osarkon I. is on the side near the lower edge. The 
Egyptians worshiped the Sun as a god, and regarded the king as 
the Sun's offspring, and thus a divinity on earth. The Pharaohs 
erected the obelisks in honor of the sun-god and of themselves. The 








THE CARTOUCHES OR NAMES OF THE PHARAOHS. 



sun-god Horus was symbolized by the sparrow hawk; and this is 
iie figure which appears at the top of each column. The name of 
the king consists of a group of signs inclosed in an oval, called a 
cartouche; the names of kings, which appear on the Obelisk, may be 
identified as here shown. The inscriptions on the several faces are 
very much alike; those of the east face still stand for all. The central 
column, beginning at the top, reads: 

The bearenlj Horns, the powerful and glorloai bull In Thebei, the lord of the 
Vulture and Uraeui dlademi, whose kingdom is established as the sun in the 
heavens. He whom Tum, the lord of Heliopolis, has begotten; the son of his 
loins whom Thoth has brought forth; who was created by them in the great 
temple in the beauty of their limbs, who knew what he would do to establish 
an eternal kingdom. Thothmes III., the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, beloved 
of the great god Tum and his circle of gods, who gives all life, stability and 
strength now and forever. 

Thus Thothmes. Then in his turn Rameses: 

The heavenly Horus, the powerful bull beloved of Ka. The king of Upper and 
Lower Egypt, Rameses II., the Sun, the child of the gods. Master of two coun- 
tries, the Sun's offspring, Rameses II., a youth glorious, beloved like Aten when 
he shines in the horizon. The lord of the two countries, Rameses II., the Sun's 
offspring, Rameses II., the glorious image of Ra, who gives life. 

Vcross the base, repeated four times, is the inscription: 
Long life to the gracious god— Rameses II. 

And then five hundred years after Thothmes and three hundred after 
Rameses, Osarkon added his name: 

The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Osarkon I., the Sun's offspring, Osarkon I. 

Knowledge of the hieroglyphic writing was lost in the early centuries 
of the Christian era, and for more than a thousand years the world 
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at Rosetta, in Egypt, a slab of basalt 
which bore an inscription written in 
hieroglyphics, and also in demotic 
and Greek, so that it was possible 
to interpret the hieroglyphics by the 
corresponding Greek, and this af- 
forded the first clue to a reading of 
the Egyptian characters. Further 
research gradually recovered the en- 
tire language, and thus the Phara- 
onic inscriptions of the Obelisk have 
been made intelligible to the modern 
world. The famous Rosetta Stone 
is in the British Museum; a cast of 
it may be seen in the Museum of 
Art (No. 59, Hall 6), where we 
shall find a large collection of Egyp- 
tion antiquities. 

The walk going northwest from 
the Museum and crossing the Drive 
leads to the upper Croton Reservoir, 
which is the retaining reservoir, the 
lower being the receiving reservoir. 
The two cover an area of 143 acres, 
and have a capacity of 1,180,000,000 
gallons. The water is brought from the High Bridge aqueduct over the 
Harlem River, coming from the Croton watershed, forty miles north 
of the city in Westchester county. The wall around the upper Reservoir 
is a favorite promenade, giving many fine water views with the Park 
surroundings and the near and distant towers and spires of the city. 
The upper Reservoir is the body of water in the Park best worth seeing. 
The lakes and ponds in the Park comprise: The Lake, already referred 
to; pleasure boats ply on it, fare 10 cents, children 5 cents. The Pond, 
near the south end, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Conservatory 
Water, near the East 726 street gate; an oval Pond on which incipient 
America's Cup defenders sail their boats; this is one of the most charm- 
ing bits of the Park. Near by is the Lily Pond, in which are grown 
many varieties of water lilies. In the northern part are the Harlem 
Mere, the Pool and the diminutive Loch. In the west, near the 79th 
street gate, is a small pond, which is the home of numerous interesting 
water fowl. The swans on the Lake are an ever-attractive feature. 

The Menagerie, at Fifth avenue and 64th street, has collections of 
birds, animals and reptiles, in buildings and cages surrounding the old 
Arsenal. There are elephants, lions, tigers, bears, hippopotami, tapir, 
deer, elk, monkeys, eagles, ostriches and other birds, alligators and 
various other specimens, the collection being usually augmented in 
winter by circus animals loaned to the city. The gray squirrels, found 
everywhere in the Park, sometimes become so numerous as to be a 
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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

The American Museum of Natural History, in Manhattan Square, 
at Seventy-seventh street, may be visited as a part of the Park tour. 
The Museum is open from lo A. M. to s P, M. on week days, and 
from I to s P. M. on Sunday. Admission is free on every day in 
the year. 

The present buildings form part of a group which will cover the en 
tire square. The departments of the Museum embrace Geology, Minerals, 
Mammals and Birds, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Anthropology, Entomology 
and Invertebrate Zoology. The collections in the several halls are ex- 
tensive and '.complete ; from the stuffed effigy of the elephant Jumbo to 
microscopic specimens of beetles, the world of nature is here presented, 
classified and labeled for study. Among the most striking exhibits are 
cases of taxidermy groups, exquisite representations of birds and mam- 
mals amid their life surroundings; the forty-eight groups of birds and 
twenty-two of mammals were produced at a cost of $45,000. Of bird 
specimens for study, the Museum possesses 60,000, and of mammals 
20,000. In Entomplogy there are the Jesup collection of economic ento- 
mology, ElHot of 6,600 butterflies and moths, Angus of 13,000 butter- 
flies, Edwards of 250,000 butterflies, Schaus of 5,0oq moths, Hoffman 
of 5,000 butterflies, a collection of 10,000 beetles and a series illustrating 
insect architecture. North American forestry is shown in the Jesup 
collection of wood, embracing more than 500 specimens ; and of North 
American building stones there are 1,500. Gems and pearls are show-- 
in the famous Tiffany collection, presented by J. P. Morgan. There 
are more than 10,000 shells; and marine life is illustrated by extensive 
series. In archaeology and ethnology there are collections from all parts 
of the world; the Christian Missions collections number thousands of 
objects illustrating the customs and domestic life of different races. 



Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



The Metropolitan Museum of Art occupies a site in Central Park, 
the imposing East Wing fronting on Fifth avenue, opposite Eighty- 
second street. It is open every week day from lo to 6 in summer, and 
10 to 5 in winter; Saturday, lo A. M. to lo P. M.; Sunday, i to 5. 
Admission Monday and Friday (except when a holiday) 25 cents. 
Free at other times. 

The Museum is a private corporation, founded in 1870 by a number 
of public-spirited citizens, and managed by a board of trustees. The 
Museum building was provided by the city. The Metropolitan is the 
largest and richest art museum in America; it is a vast storehouse of 
treasures in the several departments of the fine arts ; all times and all 
peoples have contributed to it, and we shall find material for endless 
study. The most advantageous way to see the Museum is to make a 
series of visits, devoting each one to a particular collection or group. 
The province of the Standard Guide is to indicate only in the most 
general way the scope of the collection. Visitors should use the cata- 
logues which are sold in the hall near the entrance; that of the paint- 
ings costs 20 cents; the others 10 cents each. 

The central Grand Hall contains the Wilxard Collection of Archi- 
tectural Casts, reproducing details of the notable architecture of many 
periods. Conspicuous are the models, on a scale of one-twentieth of the 
original, of the Parthenon, the Pantheon, Notre Dame, and the Hypo- 
style Hall of Karnac. 

Sculptural Plaster Casts. — Halls 6 to 11 contain reproductions of 
sculpture. There are over 800 examples, beginning at a time 3,700 years 
B. C, and illustrating the development through the Egyptian, Assyrian, 
Persian, Greek, Roman and Mediaeval periods, and the Italian Renais- 
sance. Here are the crude beginnings of antiquity and the noble works 
of the masters. Pheidias is represented by the sculptures of the Par- 
thenon (Hall 8) and Praxiteles by his world-renowned Aphrodite (No. 
34 in Hall 11). The Venus of Melos is in Hall 11. In Hall 8 the 
Galatian Warrior, the Herakles ("Torso of the Belvedere"), and the 
Laokoon group. The portrait grave-monuments in Hall 8 have touch- 
ing interest. "Archestrate greatly longed-for by her Husband" one is 
inscribed. In Hall 7 the Spinario, or Boy extracting a Thorn from his 
Foot always attracts attention. 

The Italian Renaissance subjects are in Hall 9, among them, Ghiberti's 
Door of the Baptistery at Florence. Donatello's David "Gattamelata," 

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and Judith and Holoferaes. Luca della Robbia's Dancing and Playing 
Children; and Assumption of the Virgin, in Hall 2. Michel- Angclo's 
David (No. 118), Moses (No. 131), Captive, wearied or musing (No. 
132) ; Captive struggling to burst his bond (No. 133), and the monu- 
mental figure of the Tombs of the Medici in Florence — "Night" and 
"Day," "Evening" and "Dawn," and the portrait statues of Giuliano 
and Lorenzo, the last known as "II Pensiero" from the attitude of pro- 
found thought. 

In Halls 2 and 3 are wrought-iron work, bronzes and reproductions 
of bronzes. Macmonnies' Bacchante, which was intended for the Boston 
Public Library in the Hall of Sculpture, where is shown the Museum's 
extensive collection of modern works. Among notable works are Ruck- 
stuhl's Evening, Story's Medea, Cleopatra, and Semiramis; Bartlett's 
Bohemian Bear Tamer; the Two Natures of Man; Harriet Hosmer's 
Zenobia; Roger's Ruth and Nydia; Millet's Ariadne; Prosper d'Epinay's 
Sappho, and many others. 

In the halls devoted to Egyptian Antiquities are sarcophagi and 
mummy-cases; mummies of human beings, crocodiles, cats and the ibis; 
sculptures, scarabs, amulets, textile fabrics, and objects illustrating the 
domestic life and mortuary customs of the Egyptians, extending to a 
period nearly 4,000 B. C. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiqui- 
ties consists of thousands of objects exhumed on the island of Cyprus, 
comprising stone sculptures, pottery and glass. There is also, in the en- 
trance hall, the Marquard Collection of Glass — Phoenician, Greek, 
Roman, Venetian and Florentine — which, with other glass, makes the 
Museum's collection unique and unrivalled. In other halls on the first 
floor are shown ancient armor, reproductions of bronze, and wood carv- 
ings. 

Galleries on the second floor contain the following collections: 

Balcony 3. The Morgan collection of Chinese porcelains. 

Balcony 4. Drawings and etchings by old masters. Tapestries. 

Gallery 8. Coles Gallery of Tapestries, Capo di Monte Ware, Vases. 

14-15. Reproductions in metal of objects in European museums. Orien- 
tal pottery. Glass. Tanagra figurines, Japanese ivories, sword 
guards, basket work. 

16. Greek, Roman, Etruscan antiquities. Goddess Cybele in chariot 

drawn by lions. Statue of Emperor Publius Septimus. Bronze 
Mirrors. 

17. Chinese Porcelain. 

18. Ellis collection of arms and armor. Suits of mail, swords, cross- 

bows, guns, pistols. 

19. Old laces. Presented by Mrs. John Jacob Astor and others. 
20-21. Japanese porcelains and pottery. Note Dancing Demons. 

22. Gold and Silver Room. Engraved gems. Ornaments. Military 

medals and decorations. Babylonian seal cylinders 
23 Fans and textile fabrics. Lazarus Collection of Fans. 
24. European porcelains. Louis XVI vases, Portland Vase. 



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25, 26, 27, 28. Croiby-Brown 
Collection of the Mus- 
ical Instruments of 
All Nations, More 
than 2^500 instruments. 
29, Miscellaneous — Potter- 
ies. Ivories, bronzes, 
carvings. American an- 
. tiquities. B u d d hi s t 
sacred book. Hindu 
God Krishna. Chinese 
idols. Capo di Monte 
ware. Enamels. Med- 
als, Siamese and Bur- 
mese coins. 
The Museum also pos- 
sesses an extensive collec- 
tion of portraits, medals, 
and various historic relics 
of Washington, Franklin 
and Lafayette. 

The Paintings, which fill 

eleven galleries on the sec-^ 

'ond floor, number oyer 700, 

and comprise "examples of 

nearly all the important 

schools of painting from Jan Van Eyck and Hubert Van Eyck (1390- 

1440) to the latest and most int^erestiiig of the modern painters." 

Of the 700 pictures it would be impossible to designate even in 
limited number those which for one Quality or another deserve special 
attention. For ovi^ purpose it wilt be of practical aid to one whose 
time is limited to nariie some of the paintings which are most popular. 
The explanatory notes marked "C." are from the catalogue. 




EVS WITH THE BODY OF ABEL. 



Twenty- five popular pictured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

181. The Mystery of Life. Carl Marr. An old man tired of life, hav- 
ing cpurted death in every form without avail, discovers the 
lifeless form of a beautiful young girl on the shore, and cries 
in the agony and pity of his heart to his Maker* to knbw why 
one so young and beautiful should be lost, and he; worn, weary 
and sad, allowed to live. — C. 

232, Washington Crossing the Delaware. Emanuel Leutze. On Dec. 
25, 1776, Washington determined to surprise the British at Tren- 
ton. Christmas night was selected for the enterprise. "The 
river was so full of floating ice that at first it was doubtful 
whether a crossing could be effected at all. A storm of sleet 
and Rnow had just commenced, and the night became excessively 
dark and dreary. The perilous voyage began early in the eve- 






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317. 
417. 



ning in boats and bateaiix, but it was nearly four in the morning 
before the little army was mustered on the Jersey shore." — C. 

235. Last Moments of John Brown. Thomas Hovenden. John Brown, 
the Abolitionist, having invaded Virginia with a band of fol- 

^' lowers for the purpose of liberating the slaves by inciting an 

insurrection, was condemned to death and hanged at Charleston, 

"^ Va., Dec. 2, 1859. "He met his death with serene composure." 

Christopher Columbus at the Court of Ferdinand the Catholic 

AND Isabella of Castile. Vacslav von Brozik. (1852-1901). 
Peace and Plenty. George Inness. 

Religious Procession in Brittany. Jules Breton (18*7 — ). In 

Brittany almost every saint has his special patronage and on his 

' fete day a pilgfilhage or pardon is celebrated, when indulgence 

"lor past sins is obtained. These pardons take place at fixed 

%^riods aroufld about certain churches, but often in uncultivated 

fieWs, where tents are erected, and where the fete continues for 

several days, and is attended by thousands of the peasantry. — C. 

448. The Last Token^A Christian Martyr. Gabriel Max (1840 — ). 

451. "Lost." i^ rJ A. Schenck. 

499. Weaning the Calves. Rosa Bonheur. f 

525. The Storm. ("Paul and Virginia.") Pierre Atigustc Cot. 

593. "Friedland, 1807." Meissonier. To A. T. Stewart, who purchased 
the picture, tl*e artist wrote: "I did not intend to pJiint a battle 
— I wanted tb^aint Napoleon at the zenith of his glory; I 
wanted to paint^e love, the adoration, of the soldiers for the 
great Captain in whom they had faith, and for whom they were 
ready to die." "Friedland" was purchased at the Stewart sale 
for $66,000 by Judge Henry Hilton, and by him presented to the 
Museum.^'' '■■ '"^-f"^ '"'.,. 

600. L' Attentat d'Anagni. 'Albert Maignan. Boniface VIII., a native 
of Anagni, was elected Pope in 1294. Philip the Fair of France, 



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6is. 

6l8. 

622. 

634- 
644. 



654- 



686. 
694. 



resisted his authority in spiritual matters, and compelled him to 
take refuge in his native town. Hither he was pursued. The 
picture represents the moment when Boniface says to his assail- 
ants, "Here is my neck; here is my head; strike 1 but I will die 
Pope." Boniface was thrown into prison, and though liberated 
by the people of Anagni, died within a month. — C. 

Woodland and Cattle. F. A. Bonheur. (A brother of Rost Bon- 
heur.) 

The Defense of Champigny. Edouard Detaille. An episodt of 
the Franco-Prussian War. 

The Vintage. Leon Augustin L'hermitte. 

The Balloon. Julien Duprc. 

The Death of a Vendean Chief. Robert Wylie. The picture de- 
picts an incident in the romantic insurrection of the inhabitants 
of La Vendee, France, March, 1793, to March, 1796, against the 
over-harsh interference of the revolutionists with the rights of 
their simple community. — C. 

The Hunter's Story. A. Glisenti. The picture represents one of 
the peculiar customs of a certain part of Italy — the collection 
of a bounty of eggs from neighbors keeping hens, by one who 
has killed a fox. — C. 

The Poacher's Death. Karl Wilhelm Hubner. 

Peter Sonnavater and Master Knut*s Opprobrious Entry into 
Stockholm, in 1526. C. G. Hellquist. The two Swedish Bishops, 
after their unsuccessful rebellion against Gustavus L, sought 
refuge with the Archbishop Olaf, but he treacherously betrayed 
them to the King's servants, who, dressing them in rags, and 
putting a crown of straw on Sonnavater's head, and a mitre of 
birch-bark on Knut's, mounted them on starving horses and 
brought them through Upsala to Stockholm in a Shrove-tide 
procession, amidst jeers and insults. They were led. to the 



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market-place, and, after drinking to the executioner's health, 
were broken on the wheel. — C. 

706. The Horse Fair. Rosa Bonheur. This is the original picture, 
which is so well known from numerous reproductions. It was 
purchased at the Stewart sale in 1887 for $55,500 by Cornelius 
Vanderbilt, and by him presented to the Museum. 

713. A Quartette. Wm. T. Dannat. 

716. Boatmen at Barcelona. V. D. Baixeras. 

721. Diana's Hunting Party. Hans Makart. 

■J22,. Justinian in Council. Jean Joseph Benjamin-Constant. On 
canvas 21 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 2 inches. Justinian I, sur- 
named the Great, was a Byzantine Emperor of the sixth 
century. The glory of his reign is the famous digest of 
Roman law known generally as the Justinian Code. 



Grand Central Terminal. 

The new Grand Central Terminal of the New York Central Lines, 
at Forty-second street and Park avenue, takes its place with the great 
buildings of the world. In the construction of this monumental gate- 
way, whose portals open upon the broad highways of travel that radiate 
throughout three-fourths of the American continent, the dominant idea 
has been to combine beauty and magnitude with convenience and ser- 
viceability, so that the thousands of travelers from all parts of the 
country who each day enter the city, and those from abroad, strangers 
in a strange land, may go about the terminal with as little confusion 
as in passing from one room to another in their own homes. 

In the history of railroad building there is nothing to compare with 
the work at Grand Central Terminal. It is a comparatively easy matter 
to dig a hole, lay tracks and put up a building, but to rebuild a station 
under traffic, change the entire plant so that not a vestige of the old 
remained, keep 800 trains running, and handle from 75,000 to 125,000 
passengers a day was a proposition alive with engineering and oper- 
ating problems. To do this, large purchases of land were made, in- 
creasing the area from 23 acres in the old terminal to 79 acres in the 
new, including both levels of tracks. As each new track, or group of 
tracks, was finished, a corresponding number of old ones was aban- 
doned and traffic went on without interruption. 

The bird's-eye view conveys an idea of what the rebuilding of Grand 
Central Terminal will give to the city of New York in the way of a 
beautiful civic center. This is the most original and in many respects 
the most distinctive phase of the development, and was made possible 
by the use of electric instead of steam motive power. The tracks were 
depressed below the street level. Park avenue and the cross streets from 
Forty-fifth street to Fifty-sixth street built in, thus reclaiming about 
twenty city blocks and throwing the entire area open for building pur- 
poses. It is probably the largest, and promises to be the most success- 
ful, combination of the esthetic and practical in city building yet planned 
in America. Where other idealistic group plans have failed or remained 
incomplete because dependent upon appropriations by the city, this one 
will succeed because of its earning power. The property over the rail- 
road yards, when leased, will turn in a revenue that will help to mal: •. 
good for, and pay interest on, the large amount of capital involved iii 
the terminal and correlated improvements. 

Dominating the group is the main terminal building. In designing this 
the architects had in mind an expression of the old terminal idea, which 
is a gateway to a city; hence the central part of the facade is in the 
form of a triumphal arch of monumental proportions surmounted by 
a statuary group representing Progress, Mental and Physical Force. 

Inside the main building are the waiting rooms, concourse, baggage 
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of a railroad station. Some idea of the size may be had when it is 
understood that the total area of the rooms for the public is six acres, 
or about the size of Madison Square, and that 30,000 people can be 
accommodated therein at one time without crowding. The outbound 
concourse is the principal feature. It is a magnificent room. Only when 
standing under its vaulted ceiling, spangled with constellations, can its 
impressive proportions be appreciated. It is lighted by six enormous 
dome-shaped windows, three at the east and the same number at the 
west end. 

The waiting rooms are unique in station construction in that they are 
designed to serve as rooms where travelers may wait in comfort and 
quiet for the departure of trains or arrival of friends. These rooms 
are so located that it is unnecessary to pass through them in going from 
or to trains, and they are thus free from the hurrying crowds. A 
notable feature is the elimination of stairways, accomplished by the 
use of ramps or inclined ways, thus providing for the movement of vast 
crowds from point to point without confusion. This is an arrangement 
infinitely better than stairways, which are not only a nuisance, but 
dangerous when traversed by large crowds. There are forty-two tracks 
on the upper or express level and twenty-five tracks on the lower or 
local level, making in all thirty-three and one-half miles of tracks. The 
station at the street level is 672 feet long, 310 feet wide and 150 feet 
high; below the street level, 745 feet long and 455 feet wide and 45 feet 
deep. The terminal has a capacity of 1,053 cars. 



Herald and Times Squares. 

Herald Square, at the intersection of Broadway and Sixth avenue, 
Thirty-third and Thirty-sixth streets, takes its name from the Herald 
Building, which is its most beautiful architectural adornment. It was 
formerly called Greeley Square, after Horace Greeley, whose statue is 
here; there is also a statue of William E. Dodge, a New York mer- 
chant. The terminal of the Pennsylvania Railroad occupies four blocks 
between Seventh and Ninth avenues, one block west from Herald Square. 
The small plot of ground on the corner of Thirty-fourth street, making 
a jog in the Macy building, has an interesting history. The plot con- 
tains only 1,154 square feet. The Macys wanted it, to complete their 
site, but refused to pay the price demanded. It was bought for $375,000, 
or at the rate of $324.95 per square foot, by Henry Siegel, who has 
rented it with a $40,000 four-story building on it, for twenty years at 
an annual rent of $40,000, or 5% on $800,000. 

The Herald Building. — In Herald Square at West Thirty-fifth street 
and the intersection of Broadway and Sixth avenue, the New York 
Herald occupies a building which is one of the architectural adornments 
of the city. The style is of the early Italian Renaissance, the exterior 
is profusely covered with decoration most delicate in design, and among 
the conspicuous features are the unbroken roof and the colonnades of 
the first story. The purpose of the colonnades is to give public view 
of the Herald printing, and we shall find here one of the interesting 
sights of New York. On the Sixth avenue side may be seen the process 
of preparing the plates for the press. In brief, it is this: When the 
flat form of type making a page is received from the composing room 
upstairs, a papier-mache mold is made of it. The paper mold, bent to 
the shape of a half-cylinder, forms a matrix, in which is cast the 
printing plate of type-metal, curved to the proper shape to fit the cylin- 
ders of the press. From the Broadway colonnade we may see the 
printing plates fastened on to the press cylinders, and the presses in 
operation. The paper is fed from rolls into one end of the press, and 
comes out at the other end printed, pasted, cut, folded and counted. 
The largest press has a capacity of 5,000 four-page papers per minute, 
300,000 per hour; or 2,500 eight-page papers per minute or 150,000 per 
hour When wc have watched the Herald presses we have seen one of 
the mechanical marvels of the age 

Times Square, at the intersection of Broadway and Seventh avenue, 
from Forty-second street to Forty- seventh street, takes its name from 
the twenty-five-story building of the New York Times, which dominates 
the district and is one of the most conspicuous architectural monuments 
of the town. The Square is a center of great hotels and amusement 
places. On the corner of Forty-second street is the fourteen-story Hotel 
Knickerbocker, built by Colonel John Jacob Astor at a cost of $4,500,000; 
and two blocks above on the west side is the Hotel Astor, owned by 
William Waldorf Astor, and costing, together with the site, $5,000,000. 
West on Forty-second street is the monumental Candler Building. 

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Riverside Drive. 



A. DISTRICT of much interest is the plateau north of iioth street, on the 
West Side, between the Hudson River and Morningside Park. It con- 
tains Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive, and Columbia University and 
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights. 

Riverside Park, which begins at 72d street, extends along the slopes 
and bluffs of the Hudson for three miles to 130th street, forming what 
Sir Henry Irving has pronounced the most magnificent residential avenue 
in the world. It was a park in nature; and for the most part the natural 
contours have been preserved, with many of the trees of the original 
forest. Along the bluff, which in places attains an elevation of 130 feet, 
runs Riverside Drive, one of the grandest and most beautiful urban drives 
in the world. It gives a succession of picturesque views of the Hudson 
and the Palisades, and is lined on the east with fine houses. The River- 
side section is one of the high-class residential districts. The New 
York Orphan Asylum plot fronting the Drive, from 73d to 74th streets, 
was acquired in 1901 by Charles M. Schwab, President of the United 
States Steel Corporation, who paid for it $860,000, and here Mr. Schwab 
has built at a reported cost of $2,000,000 one of the most magnificent 
residences in America. 




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soldiers' and sailors' monument, riverside dbive 

Photo © Geo. P. Hall & Son. 



At 8Qth street is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, to commemorate 
the citizens of New York who had part in the Civil War; modeled after 
the choragic monuments of ancient Athens, it is a circular building of 
pure white marble, with a peristyle of twelve Corinthian columns, 35 
feet high. It was provided by the city at a cost of $250,000, and wa^ 
dedicated in 1902. 

A copy of Houdon's statue of Washington, a gift from the school 
children of the city, stands at 89th street. 

The boat house of Columbia is on the river bank at 115th street. Across 
the open fields at ii6th street are seen the buildings of Columbia Univer- 
sity and Barnard College, and shortly beyond we come to the ascent upon 
which rises the Tomb of General Grant. The spot is one of natural 
grandeur and beauty of surroundings. The bluff rises 130 feet above the 
river, and is clothed with great forest trees, good to look upon, and 
through the openings giving many lovely vistas. Below is the broad ex- 
panse of the Hudson, animated here and there with sail and steam; 
opposite are the green slopes of New Jersey, with the Palisades stretch- 
ing away to the north until they soften in the distance and merge in 
the purple haze. The view looking up the Hudson from Qaremont is 
justly famous. It would have been difficult to find a grander site than 
this on Riverside Drive for the monumental pile which New York has 
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This point of the Drive has retained the name of Qaremont, from an 
old family mansion, which stands north of the Tomb, and is now the 
Claremont Inn restaurant. Beyond the Claremont slopes the cast drive, 
circles and returns on the west side of the Tomb. A steel viaduct one- 
third of a mile in length spanning Manhattan Valley provides for the 
northern extension of the Drive to a connection with the Harlem Speed- 
way, which gives a continuous elevated boulevard for a distance of ten 
miles along the Hudson and the Harlem. 



Grant's Tomb. 

Grant's Tomb, on Riverside Drive at 123d street, occupies a command- 
ing site overlooking the Hudson, and is itself a conspicuous object in 
the river views. It was designed by John H. Duncan, and is constructed 
OL white granite from Maine, with white marble interior. The propor- 
tions are imposing. The square structure is 90 feet on the side and 
72 feet in height; the circular cupola with Ionic columns is 70 feet in 
diameter, and the dome rises 150 feet from the ground. The apex of the 
monument is 280 feet above the river. From the plaza on the south side 
steps 70 feet wide ascend to the portico, which has double lines of Doric 
columns Icfore the entrance, with its massive bronze doors. Above the 
portico two sculptured figures by J. Massey Rhind, emblematic of Peace 
and War, flank a panel, on which are inscribed the words : Let us havi 
PEACE.* The decorative scheme provides for bronze statues and groups 
on the portico, parapet and dome. 

The interior plan is cruciform, 76 feet between the walls. The four 
great piers of the rotunda carry arches whose crowns are 50 feet from 
the floor ; the circular gallery, supported by the arches, is 40 feet in diam- 
eter; the dome rises 105 feet above the floor. In the pendentives sculp- 
tured reliefs by Rhind symbolize Youth, Military Life, Civil Life and 
Death. In small rooms surrounding the rotunda stands of battle flags 
lend a touch of color. The hush of the vast chamber, the mellowed light 
and the simplicity and dignity of all combine to give solemnity to the 
place. 

Through a circular opening in the floor the sarcophagus is seen in the 
crypt directly beneath the center of the dome. It is of polished red 
porphyry from Wisconsin, and is supported upon a pedestal of granite 
from Massachusetts. Upon the lid is the name Ulysses S. Grant. The 

•This was the concluding sentence of General Grant's letter of May 29, 1868, accept- 
ing the nomination for the Presidency. It was the expression of his earnest desire 
for reconciliation between the North and the South. The historic phrase was well 
chosen for perpetuation here. The Civil War was a conflict between brothers; its 
termination meant the restoration of their union. It is fitting, then, that this monu- 
ment to the General, who commanded the victorious Union armies, should have in- 
scribed upon it not a record of his triumphs over the enemy, but the sentiment which 
he himself uttered, significant of the end for which the battle had been fought— the 
"peace" of reconciled and reunited brothers— a peace the realization of which has 
made Grant's achievements and fame the heritage of a common country. 



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companion sarcophagus, a counterpart in material and design, is here 
in compliance with an expressed wish of General Grant that Mrs. 
Grant should lie by his side. 

General Grant died at Mount McGregor, July 23, 1885. The remains 
lay in state in the New York City Hall, and were viewed by 300,000 
people before being conveyed to the temporary tomb at Riverside 
The funeral was the grandest pageant New York has seen. The pro- 
cession was eight miles in length, and it was estimated that an as- 
semblage of a million people lined the route. 

The Tomb was built with a fund raised by the Grand Monument Asso- 
ciation. There were 90,000 contributors, and the fund with accrued 
interest aggregated $600,000. The cornerstone was laid by President 
Harrison, April 27, 1892, Sealed in it were copies of the Declaration of 
Independence, Constitution of the United States and Articles of Con- 
federation; a Bible, the "Memoirs of General Grant," an American flag, 
badges of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion, and 
eleven medals struck in United States mints in commemoration of events 
in Grant's life. On April 27, 1897, the seventy-fifth anniversary of his 
birth, the monument was dedicated with imposing ceremonies, a military, 
naval and civic parade in which 50,000 men were in line, an address by 
President McKinley, and an oration by Gen. Horace Porter, President 
of the Grant Monument Association. 

Among the earliest contributors to the monument fund had been the 
Chinese statesman, Li Hung Chang, between whom and Grant a friend- 
ship had existed since their meeting in China during the General's trip 
around the world. Each year after Grant's death Li Hung Chang had 
sent to the Chinese Minister at Washington a wreath to be placed at 
the temporary tomb. When Li was in the United States in 1896 he visited 
the tomb and laid upon the sarcophagus a wreath of smilax, laurel 
and orchids. The following year he sent a gingko tree, to be planted 
here; it is on the north side of the Tomb, and the bronze tablet records 
in Chinese and English texts:* 

This tree Is planted at the side of the tomb of General U. S. Grant, ez-Presldent 
of the United States of America, for the purpose of commemoratinc his great- 
ness, by Li Hung Chang, Guardian of the Prince, Grand Secretary of State, 
Earl of the First Order Yang Hu, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary of China, Vice-Preoldent of the Beard of Censers. Kwang Hstt, 23rd 
year, 4th moon, May, 1897. 

Near Grant's Tomb, on the edge of the bluff, is a little monument 
marking the grave of "an amiable child." The inscriptions have been 
blurred by the passing of a hundred years, but we may read them still: 

Erected to the memory of an amiable child, St. Claire Pollock, died 15 July, 
1797, in the 5 year of his age. 

Man that is born of a woman is of few years and full of trouble. He cometk 
forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. 

At the time referred to this was called Strawberry Hill, and here was 
(he country home of George Pollock, a New York merchant. Shortly 

*With the gingko or maiden hair (Salisburia adiantifolia) was planted as a com- 
panion tree a Chinese cork tree (Phgllodendron amitrtnst^. 



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thereafter Mr. Pollock failed in business, was forced to sell his Straw- 
berry Hill property, and went to England. In a letter which he wrote 
thence to Mrs. Gulian C. Verplanck, under date of Jan. 18, 1800, we have 
this record of the child's grave: 

There is a small enclosure near your boundary fence within which lie the remains 
of a favorite child, covered by a marble monument. . . The surrounding ground 
will fall into the hands of I know not whom, whose prejudice or better taste may 
remove the monument and lay the enclosure open. You will confer a peculiar and 
interesting favor upon me by allowing me to convey the enclosure to you, so thai 
you will consider it a part of your own estate, keeping it, however, always enclosed 
and sacred. There is a white marble funeral urn prepared to place on the monument 
which will not lessen its beauty. I have long considered those grounds as of my 
own creation, having selected them when wild, and brought the place to its present 
form. Having so long and so delightfully resided there, I feel an interest in it 
that I cannot get rid of but with time. 

It is an extremely curious and interesting circumstance that the little 
grave, which thus, in 1800 was the subject of a father's solicitude, should 
have endured through the vicissitudes of a hundred years, and been pre- 
served amid the changes which have converted the remote country seat 
of Strawberry Hill into the Riverside Park of to-day — the spot of isolated 
seclusion into a place of thronging thousands. More suggestive still is 
that chance of time which has brought into juxtaposition here on River- 
side Drive the magnificent Tomb of the great General — a nation's shrine, 
and the humble grave of "an amiable child," who died more than a 
century ago "in the 5 year of his age." 



Momingside Heights. 



President Seth Low, of Columbia University, called the Momingside 
Heights the "Acropolis of the New World" ; and to make good the name 
has crowned the plateau with the Low Memorial Library, pure Greek in 
design and with Pallas Athene at the threshold. The Library was given 
by President Low as a memorial of his father, Abiel Abbott Low, a 
citizen of Brooklyn and merchant of New York. The Library fronts ol 
ii6th street and is approached by the South Court, which is the principal 
entrance to the University ground. The court is 350 by 130 feet, and 
consists of a paved esplanade, with granite wall and balustrade on three 
sides, and great Italian stone vases, fountains, flowers and shrubs, and 
broad steps leading up to the Library grade, 10 feet above the street, li 
is in the Italian style, and is an architectural feature unique in America 
The two Irish yews, one on each side of the sairway, were brought to 
America more than a century ago, and were transplanted here from the 
old college site in 49th street. The flag standard was presented by 
Lafayette Post, No. 140, G. A. R. The Library building, of Indiana lime- 
stone on a granite base, cost $1,500,000, and is considered one of tbe 
purest examples of classical Greek architecture in America. The plan 
is that of a Maltese cross, the central feature being the rotunda, vaulted 



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by the immense dome. A panel above the portico contains the record 
of Columbia's past: 

King's College, founded in the Province of liew York by royal charter in th« 
reign of George II. Perpetuated as Columbia College by the people of the State 
of New York when they became free and independent; maintained and cherished 
from generation to generation for the advancement of the public good and the 
glory of Almighty God. 

In the Library is treasured the old iron crown that once formed the 
rinial of King's College. With its 285,000 volumes the Library ranks 
fourth in value of book collections in this country. The reading room 
is open to the public daily and at night. 

The University grounds of eighteen acres cost $2,000,000. The Campus, 
at the north end of the grounds, with its groves of oaks and chestnuts, 
is surrounded with a massive iron fence; this has on the Broadway side 
a bronze gate, which is a memorial of Herbert Mapes ('90 Arts and 
'92 Mines), who shortly after graduation sacrificed his life in an en- 
deavor to rescue two girls from death by drowning. 

Columbia occupies historic ground. Embedded in the masonry of the 

Engineering Building on the Broadway side is a bronze tablet erected 

by the Sons of the Revolution — 

To commemorate the Battle of Harlem Heights, won by 
Washington's troops on this site, September li, 177i. 

The relief pictures the charge of the Rangers and riflemen under 
Major Andrew Leitch, of Virginia, and Colonel Thomas Knowlton, of 
Connecticut. Leitch is represented as fallen, and KnovViton with waving 
sword encouraging his men. Both were mortally woimded in the charge, 
Knowlton bequeathing to us his dying declaration, *T do not value my 
life if we but get the day." In the main battle which followed, on the 
plateau which lies to the west, the Americans did "get the day" in the 
face of superior numbers, and won a victory which inspired lasting 
courage and confidence in the Patriot army. 

Across Broadway from Columbia is Barnard College, for women, the 
three halls — Fisk, Milbank and Brinkerhoff — forming an attractive quad- 
rangle on 119th street. The College, which took its name from Dr. 
Charles Barnard, a former President of Columbia, is a department of 
the University. Hamilton Court, a dormitory for Columbia students, 
with rooms for 1,000, is on Amsterdam avenue northeast of the Universi^ 
grounds. The Columbia Boat House on the Hudson at the foot oJ 
115th street was given by Edwin Gould, a graduate of 1888. The athletic 
field is at Williamsbridge. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, a 
department of Columbia, is on West 59th street. 

Teachers' College, opposite Columbia, at 120th street, is for the train- 
ing of teachers. It was founded in 1886 by Miss Grace Dodge, and is 
now a part of Columbia University. The Horace Mann School is a 
large private school conducted in connection with the College. Visitors 
are welcome from Monday to Friday inclusive, in the College. 

Overlooking Morningside Park at ii6th street and Morningside 
avenue is the monument by Karl Bitter in memory of Carl Schurz, 
defender of Liberty and Friend of Human Right. 



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THE LOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY. 
Photo (Q Irving Underbill. 

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Protestant Episcopal) is 
building on Cathedral Heights, a name which has been given to the 
southern end of Morningside Heights, between Morningside Park and 
Amsterdam avenue. The site, which embraces three city blocks, from 
iioth to 113th streets, cost $850,000. The cornerstone was laid in 1892; 
the whole structure will be built in from forty to fifty years, at an 
estimated cost of $6,000,000. 

The exterior length is 520 feet, width of front 172 feet, across the 
transepts 290 feet. Of the seven towers, the four on the sides are 158 
feet, the two in front 284 feet, and the central tower will rise 445 feet 
from floor to top of cross. The nave is 180 feet long, the chancel vault 
115 feet high. Thus it is seen that the Cathedral surpasses any other 
ecclesiastical edifice in America, and in its dignity of design, grandeur 
of proportions and superb situation, takes rank with the great 
cathedrals of the Old World. 

A feature of the Choir is the eight pillars surrounding the three sides 
of the altar; these are mammoth monoliths of polished Maine granite, 
each one 54 feet 6 inches high and 6 feet in diameter, and weighing 120 
tons. These are building stones surpassed only by the 60-foot col- 
umns in the Cathedral of St. Isaac in St. Petersburg. 

Surrounding the Choir are the seven Chapels of Tongues, represent- 
ing seven different rites. All are memorials. 



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Opposite the Cathedral grounds on 113th street is St. Luke's Hospital, 
Protestant Episcopal, one of the noble institutions of the city. 

The Viaduct at 155th street, four-fifths mile long, which connects 
Washington Heights, by way of the Cent: J. Bridge, with Jerome avenue, 
was built at a cost of $2,000,000, and r^..^s as one of the greatest of 
the engineering works of its class. 

Hispanic Society of America. — The library and museum of the 
Hispanic Society of America is in Audubon Park, 156th street, near 
Broadway. The library, art collection and historical objects were gath- 
ered by Archer M. Huntington, who endowed the Hispanic Society and 
gave the land upon which the museum stands. The society's purpose 
is to make the library and museum useful to students and literary men. 
The society was founded by Mr. Huntington for the purpose of bring- 
ing the people of the United States who are interested in Spanish history, 
art and literature into closer relations with the Spanish and Portuguese 
people and those of the same blood in South America. Mr. Huntington 
spent more than eighteen years making the collections, and they are the 
largest of their kind in this country and among the most important in 
the world. The institution is open to the public. Among the objects 
in the museum interesting to students of Hispanic subjects is a pair of 
bronze Arabic doors, which flank the main entrance. These doors, which 
came from a Cairo mosque, were built by a Mameluke general in 1381. 
The museum contains examples of pottery dating from the fifth century 
before Christ to the present time, and also includes silver, medals, coins 
and textiles, beside some sixteenth century carvings in wood, marble and 
ironwork. Spanish-America is also historically and artistically repre- 
sented. There are more than fifty thousand volumes in the library, 
on ancient and modern Spanish and Portuguese subjects. The Hispanic 
Society of America is an endowed society, its members paying no dues. 
Its members are scattered all over the world, where they are constantly 
on the lookout for some available addition to the library or museum. 

The Jumel Mansion, a fine example of Colonial architecture, at 
i6oth street, near Amsterdam avenue, is the most famous historic house 
on Manhattan Island. It was built in 1763 by Roger Morris, the hus- 
band of that Mary Philipse, for whose hand the young Virginia Colonel, 
George Washington, is said to have been an unsuccessful suitor. When 
the Revolutionary War began, Roger Morris, who had resigned a 
Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the British Army, and who was then a mem- 
ber of the King's Council for the Colonies, fled the country, taking ship 
for England in May, 1775. Mrs. Morris remained in possession of the 
Mansion and of her town house at the corner of Stone street and White 
Hall. General Washington took the Mansion for his headquarters on 
his retreat from New York and occupied it for thirty-six days. The 
great salon in the extension was his Council Chamber, and the rear 
room above was his bedroom. The house fell into the hands of the 



HARLEM RIVER AND BEYOND. 



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THE CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE. 
Photo (t^j Brown Bros. 



British with the capture of Fort Washington, and was the headquarters 
of General Sir Henry Clinton in the summer of 1777, and of Lieutenant- 
General Baron von Knyphausen in 1778. After the war it was a tavern 
on the Albany stage road, the first stopping place out of New York, 
where the first change of horses was made. The house was then known 
as Calumet Hall. It was a farm house in 1790, when General Wash- 
ington gave a dinner in the old house to his Cab'net officers and their 
ladies. Among his guests were Alexander Hamilton and Mrs. Hamilton, 



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John Adams and Abigail Adams, his wife, General and Mrs. Knox, 
Thomas Jefferson and Mrs. Tobias Leer. The estate, comprising the 
Mansion and thirty-six acres of land, were bought in 1810 by Stephen 
Jumel, a rich French merchant, from Leonard Parkinson, for a little 
less than $10,000. M. Jumel was an ardent admirer of Washington, and 
he devoted his money and his energy to restoring the house to what 
it had been in Washington's time. He had the old green Colonial paper 
reproduced in France and restored to the walls of the Council Chamber, 
where it hung altogether for 120 years. In 181 5 he went to France in 
his own ship, the "Eliza," named after his wife, who accompanied him, 
with the purpose of bringing back Napoleon to the house that had 
sheltered Washington. The Emperor was unable to accept the hos- 
pitality of M. Jumel, but he gave to the Jumels his traveling carriage 
and his campaigning trunk. The Egyptian Cjrprus trees, now standing 
at the comer of St. Nicholas avenue and 159th street, which had just 
been given to Napoleon by the Khedive of Egypt, were sent to America 
by M. Jumel in 1815. After the death of her husband, Madame Jumel 
married Aaron Burr, but soon divorced him. She was a famous his- 
torical character, who used to drive in a coach and four with postillions. 
She entertained such famous guests as Lafayette, Louis Napoleon, Joseph 
Bonaparte and Jerome Bonaparte. She died in 1865. The house is 
owned by the city, and with the grounds is included in the park system. 
It is in the care of the Washington Headquarters' Association of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution and contains a museum of Revo- 
lutionary relics. It is open to visitors on every day in the year from 
g o'clock A. M. to 5 P. M. The nearest station on the Subway is at 
iS7th street and Broadway, and by the Elevated at 155th street. 

The Harlem River, seven miles long, separates Manhattan Island 
from the mainland. It connects the Hudson with the East River and 
Long Island Sound, and Congress has made it a ship canal for approach 
to the Sound without going through Hell Gate. For much of its course 
it flows through a picturesque valley, and the natural attractions, to- 
gether with the great bridges which span the river, make it a popular 
resort. All the points here named are on the west side of the city. 

High Bridge, at West 175th street, carries across the Harlem the 
original Croton aqueduct, which brings the city water from Croton 
River and Lake in Westchester county. The bridge is 1,460 feet in 
length; the crown of the highest of the fourteen arches is 116 feet 
above the river. The bridge footway affords fine views, and from 
below the arches gives many pleasing vistas. The grounds adjacent coa- 
•titfite the High Bridge Park. 



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THE JUMEL MA^fSIO^^ 



The Washington Bridge, just north of High Bridge, at West i8ist 
street, is an imposing structure of steel, iron and granite, in size and 
grandeur of proportions second only to the Brooklyn Bridge. It is 
2,384 feet in length, and 80 feet wide; the two central arches have a 
span of 510 feet each, and their crowns are 135 feet above the river. 
The cost was nearly $2,700,000. Bordering the east approach are the 
grounds of the Ogden estate. The river slope has been made a public 
park. On the east bank of the river are the tracks of the New York 
Central, and New York & Putnam roads; on the west side is the 
Speedway. The view to the north is toward Kingsbridge. On the left 
are Washington Heights and Fort George, named from a Revolutionary 
redoubt. The Isabella Heimath, on the crest of the hill near Fort George, 
is a home for old men and women ; it was given in memory of Anna 
Ottendorfer by her husband, Oswald Ottendorfer, founder of the Staats- 
Zeitung. On the east side of the river are Morris Heights and Univer- 
sity Heights, where may be seen the dome of the University Library. 
Beyond is the tower of the Webb Academy and Home for Ship- 
builders, founded at a cost of $2,000,000 by the New York Shipbuilder, 
William H. Webb. 

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is at University Heights, 
and is reached by a short walk from the N. Y. University station of 
the East Trunk Line Subway. The Hall, which is one of the buildings 
of the New York University, is a granite colonnade 500 feet in length, 
built about the Library. It contains 150 panels, in which will be set 
bronze tablets for the names of 150 great Americans. The selection of 
the subjects to be honored is entrusted to a committee of 100 mem- 
bers, made up of college presidents, educators, professors of history, 



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WASHINGTON BRIDGE. 

scientists, publicists, editors, authors and chief justices, the selection 
finally to be approved by the New York University Senate. Only 
persons born in the United States and deceased at least ten years are 
eligible. Elections, which began in 1900, will be held every fifth year 
until the roll of 150 is complete. With each individual's name is in- 
scribed a quotation from his speeches or writings; and in the Museum 
of the Hall of Fame, portraits and other memorials will be preserved. 
A Hall of Fame for women was added in 1905. The names which have 
been selected are : 



Authors — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, George 
Bancroft, William Culleii Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, John Lothrop Motley, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Parkman. 

Epucators— Horace Mann, Mark Hopkins. 

Preachers and Theologians — Jonathan Edwards, Henry Ward Beecher, William 
Ellery Channing, Phillips Brooks. 

Phtlanthsopists, Reformers — Peter Cooper, George Peabody. 

Scientists — John James Audubon, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry. 

Inventors— Robert Fulton, Samuel R. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe. 

Pioneer— Daniel Boone. 

Soldiers, Sailors— David Griscoe Farragut, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Robert E. Lee, 
William TecumFrh Sherman. 

Lawyers, Judges— Jam '■t Kent, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Rufus Choate. 

Rulers and Statesmen- (ohn Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Benjamin 
Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, James 
Madison, George Washington, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton. 

Painter— Gilbert Charles Stuart. 

Famous American Women— Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Educators: Mary 
Lyon, Emma Willard. Social Worker : Frances E. Willard. Artist: Charlotte 
Cushman. Scientist: Maria Mitchell. 



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Bronx Park. 

Bronx Park lies on both sides of the Bronx River, between Williams- 
bridge and West Farms. The river, which took its name from Jonas 
Broncks, one of the early Dutch proprietors, rises near the Connecticut 
line, and flows into Long Island Sound. It is a river in name only, and 
one only needs to look upon the narrow and shallow stream to appreciate 
the humor of the command sent by the British authorities to Lord 
Admiral Howe, to "send a couple of frigates up the Bronx River to 
protect our forces and fire into the enemy whenever seen." 

The river as we see it in the Park is a picturesque stream flowing 
between rocky dells and through peaceful reaches, and presenting many 
charming bits of scenery. It was resorted to by artists and pictured 
on many a canvas long before the conversion of the territory into a 
park revealed its loveliness to the public eye. As with other recently 
acquired parks which have absorbed private estates, Bronx Park retains 
relics of a former occupancy. On the river slope in one of the most 
charming glens is the Lorillard mansion, which was built about 1855 by 
Pierre Lorillard, and is now used for park and police purposes. On 
the opposite side of the stream below the bridge is the site of the old 
Lorillard snuff mill, whose wheels turned by the Bronx waterpower 
ground out in snuff the Lorillard fortune. Appropriately enough, the 
Botanical Garden gardners now grow near the old mill specimens of 
the several varieties of tobacco. An interesting natural feature of the 
Park is the Rocking Stone. This is a granite boulder deposited in the 
glacial epoch, and poised so perfectly upon a granite pedestal that the 
human arm may cause it to rock in an arc of about 2 inches. The 
stone is 7 feet high, 10 feet broad and 8 feet through, having an esti- 
mated weight of 30 tons. It is in the Zoological Park. Of the f>62 
acres comprised in the Park area, 250 have been given to a botanical 
garden, and 261 to a zoological park. Both institutions are corporations, 
managed by trustees and occupying their sites by an arrangement with 
the city. 

The New York Botanical Garden, in Bronx Park, near the Bedford 
Park Station of the Harlem Railroad, is open daily, Sunday included, 
from 9 to s; the Museum from 9:30 to 5. Admission is free. The 
Museum contains collections of Economic Botany, showing vegetable 
products, processes of manufacture and uses to which put, as various 
fibers, wood made into paper, sugar cane into refined sugar, chocolate, 
cork, cottonseed wines, cereals, turpentine, etc. The collections of Scien- 
tific Botany include the famous Torrey Herbarium deposited by Columbia 
University and valued at $175,000. The conservatories contain tens of 
thousands of growing plants, shrubs and trees, gathered from all quar- 
ters of the globe, many rare and costly, such as the palms given by 
Miss Helen Gould and the wonderfully great anthurium given by Mrt. 
F. L. Ames, of North Easton, Mass. The outdoor beds and plantations 
^ow many family groups of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees; and 



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there are miles of walks with flower borders. In value and complete- 
ness the Garden will rival the Kew Gardens of London and the Jardin 
des Plantes of Paris. 

The New York Zoological Park has an ideal site in Bronx Park, 
and is in plan and extent unequalled by any institution of its class in 
the world. The houses and outdoor ranges for mammals, the reptile 
house and the vast flying cage for birds have been prepared with a 
view to approximating as closely as possible the natural conditions of 
life of the occupants, and the very successful way in which this has 
been accomplished enables us to see the animals as they are in nature 
The Society's Official Guide may be procured at the entraace. 

Van Cortlandt Park. 

Van Cortlandt Park, at the exertme north end of the city, comprises 
in its diversified area a high ridge which carries the Croton aqueduct, a 
wide level plain which is a parade ground of the National Guard, and a 
lake resorted to in winter by skaters and players of the Scotch game of 
curling; then there are golf links, ball grounds, and, as the chief thing of 
interest, the Van Cortlandt Mansion. The house is an interesting example 
of Dutch architecture. It was built by Frederick Van Cortlandt in 1748; 
and the thick rubble stone walls are as solid to-day as a century and a 
half ago. A row of horse chestnuts is reputed to be 175 years old. In' 
1896 the house was given by the Park Commission into the custody of 
the Colonial Dames of the State of New York, by whom it is main- 
tained as a public museum. It is open daily, 10 to 6 in summer, 10 to S 
in winter; 2 to 6 on Sunday. Admission 25 cents on Thursdays; on 
other days free. The interior has an old-fashioned air, but it tells all 
through the story of substantial means and generous living. There are 
huge fireplaces faced with scriptural tiles, deep window seats, a generous 
wine closet in the wall, a big Dutch oven in the kitchen, and a cellar 
with massive hand-hewn beams of cedar and cypress, and 3-foot walls 
loop-holed for muskets. Washington made his headquarters here on his 
way to the entry of New York in 1783, and the Washington Room is 
now the museum, containing many Colonial and Revolutionary memen- 
toes, among them the four-post bedstead on which Washington slept. 
Altogether, the Van Cortlandt House is the best relic New York has 
of the old regime, and it is a charming place to visit. 



THE SUBI^VAY. 



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The Subway. 



Manhattan Island is long and narrow, with the business district in 
the lower parts of the city and the homes in the upper part. This pre- 
sents a most difficult transportation problem. Morning and evening the 
human flood sets south and north, and the surface and elevated lines 
are congested. The solution of the problem has been found in the pro- 
vision of underground rapid transit systems. Plans for the first under- 
ground road were adopted in 1899, and the contract for building was 
awarded to John B. McDonald, on his bid of $35,000,000, reputed to be 
the largest individual contract ever let. The city paid this sum for the 
construction, and leased the road to the contractor for fifty years, under 
an arrangement by which at the expiration of that term the city will 
have received back the money paid for the road, and may then take 
over the equipment at a price fixed by arbitration. The work of con- 
struction was begun in 1900, and the road was in operation in 1904. 

The Rapid Transit Railroad extends from the Battery north to Spuyten 
Duyvil Creek on the west, and Bronx Park on the east; and by con- 
nection with the Manhattan-Brooklyn Tunnel from Brookl)rn to the 
Bronx. Beginning at the Battery the road follows Broadway to Park 
Row, thence up Park Row, with a loop in City Hall Park; Lafayette 
street. Fourth avenue, Park avenue, Forty-second street, Broadway to 



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THE FOUR-TRACK SYSTEM AT SPRING STREET. 
Photo by P. P. Pullis. 



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169th street, West End avenue to Sherman's Creek, Ell wood avenue to 
Inwood street, Broadway to 230th street, Kingsbridge, and thence to Van 
Cortlandt Park, at 2426. street and Broadway. At 104th street the East 
Side Line diverges to Lenox avenue at iioth street, then runs up Lenox 
avenue, under the Harlem River, and through 149th street, Westchester 
avenue. Southern boulevard and Boston Road to Bronx Park. 

The Subway is rectangular, being 25 feet wide for the two-track sec- 
tions, 50 feet wide for the four-track sections, and 13 feet high through- 
out. It has a concrete bed and a steel frame construction. Throughout 
most of the length the road was excavated from the surface. A trench 
was dug, the bottom was lined with a concrete flooring; then a rec- 
tangular framework of steel beams was erected, with concrete walls 
and roof; and on the outside were spread layers of asphalt and roofing 
felt. The Subway is thus for the most part a covered trench with the 
roof near the surface, and the stairs leading to the station platforms 
do not have longer flights than those of the elevated roads. On Broad- 
way, from Sixtieth to 104th streets, the Subway is lighted by skylights 
in the center of the street. The tunneling is principally in the section 
under Central Park (at Columbus avenue and 104th street, 80 feet below 
the surface), and in the Fort Washington section, where the rock tunnel 
through the hill of gneiss along Broadway and Eleventh avenue, from 
iS8th street to a point near Fort George, is two miles long, being next 
to the Hoosac Tunnel, the longest one in the United States. At 125th 
street the West Side Line emerges and crosses Manhattan Valley on a 
viaduct to 135th street, where it enters a tunnel, and at 190th street 
is more than 100 feet below the surface. At 169th and 181 st streets the 
stations are hollowed out of the solid rock no feet underground, and 
are reached by elevators. The tracks are carried under the Harlem 
River on two steel cylinder tubes encased in concrete. 

The motive power is electricity (third-rail system). The running 
time from City Hall Park to Ninety-sixth street is 13 minutes for ex- 
press trains, and 21 minutes for local trains. 

With a total length of 21 miles, New York's $35,000,000 tunnel is the 
longest railroad tunnel in the world. Its construction was one of the 
great engineering enterprises of the twentieth century. The figures of 
the excavation and the construction are prodigious. There were 3,212,000 
cubic yards of material to be taken out — 1,900,000 of earth and 1,312,000 
of rock. The construction called for 65,000 tons of steel, 8,000 tons of 
cast iron, 551,000 cubic yards of concrete, 910,000 square yards of water- 
proofing for making the Subway absolutely dry. 

The largest stations are those at Brooklyn Bridge, Fourteenth street, 
and I02d street. The stations are lined with tile, and a system of dis- 
tinctive architecture and color schemes has been employed, so that a 
station may be known by its own particular wall colors. 

At Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue is one of the most re- 
markable street intersection corners in the world. On the surface run 
the Thirty-fourth street cars. One flight down are the Madison 
avenue cars; two flights down the Rapid Transit Subway; and three 
flights down the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel. 



TUNNELS. TiQ 

Tunnels. 

1. The Manhattan-Brooklyn Tunnel is an extension of the Rapid 
Transit Railroad subway system under the East River to the foot of 
Joralemon street; thence to Fulton street and Flatbush avenue and to 
the junction of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, where is the station of 
the Long Island Railroad. Under the river the construction consists of 
two cast-iron tubes, inside diameter 15 feet 6 inches, length 6,790 feet. 
Trains pass to Brooklyn through the south tube and return through the 
north tube. The grade is 3.1 per 100 feet, the descent and ascent of the 
train being scarcely perceptible. The tunnel is everywhere below water 
level, until it rises at a point 700 feet before reaching the EJorough Hall 
station. It passes through rock (two stretches of 2,700 feet and 400 
feet) and sand, clay and gravel formations. The lowest point reached 
by the tunnel is 94 feet below mean high water. Certain portions which 
pass through sand are given added strength by concrete piles sunk to 
bedrock, at depths varying from 5 to 75 feet. The motive power is 
electricity, by the third-rail system. The actual cost exceeded $10,000,000 
The tunnel will be operated by the constructing company for a term of 
thirty-five years, when it is to revert to the city, under conditions similar 
to those which control in the Rapid Transit Railroad contract. 

2. The McAdoo Tunnels under the North River. There arc two 
pairs of these connected by the Jersey City subway, the Morton street 
tubes to Jersey City, and the Cortlandt street tubes to Montgomery, 
Jersey City. The Morton street line extends under Greenwich and 
Christopher streets to Sixth avenue, and under the avenue to the ter- 
minal at Thirty-third street and Sixth avenue; thence it will be extended 
to Forty-second street. 

There are stations at Christopher and Greenwich streets, where con- 
nection is made with the Ninth Avenue Elevated ; Christopher street 
and Sixth avenue, with connection with the Sixth Avenue Elevated ; 
and at Fourteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-third, Twenty-eighth and Thirty- 
third streets. 

The Cortlandt street tubes have their outlet in the vast Terminal 
Buildings on Church street, extending from Cortlandt to Fulton, 

In Jersey City the center of the system is the terminal station, hewn 
out of the solid rock, 85 feet below the Pennsylvania Railroad train 
shed, and reached from the Pennsylvania terminal by elevators. Two 
branches extend west, rising to the surface, for electric cars from 
Manhattan to Newark and other New Jersey points; and two other 
lines run north to the Lackawanna station; and connection is afforded 
also with the Erie Railroad. 

The tunnels are tubes constructed of steel rings overlaid with con- 
crete. In each tunnel there is a separate tube for each track; ventila- 
tion is secured by the action of the train, which forces the air ahead 
of it. The tubes are 15 feet in 'nterior diameter. They lie about 30 
feet apart and are from 60 to go feet below the surface of the Hudson, 



120 NEW YORK. 

the depth of earth between the tunnel and the water ranging from 
15 to 40 feet. The deepest part is on the New York side. 

3. The Belmont Tunnels from the foot of East Forty-second street 
to Long Island City, the two tubes there looping and connecting with 
surface lines in Queens County. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad enters New York through a series of 
tunnels from New Jersey, passing beneath the Hudson River, Manhat- 
tan Island and the East River to Long Island, connecting with the 
Long Island Railroad. The bed of the Hudson consists of soft mud 
and clay, of an oozy consistency to a great depth, and unsuited to 
tunnel work. An entirely new principle, therefore, was adopted. Stone 
piers were built resting upon the solid rock beneath the river bed. The 
piers support a bridge inclosed in an 18-foot water-eight steel tube; 
and carry the railroad track within the tube. The bed of the tracks in 
mid-stream is 100 feet below the river bed. There are six of the tubes; 
they enter Manhattan in pairs, at Thirty-first, Thirty-second and 
Thirty-third streets, and the tunnel extensions to the East River cross 
the city under the lines of these streets. Electric locomotives are used. 

The terminal station is gigantic in dimensions. It occupies a plot 
1,500 feet in length by 520 in width; covering the four blocks bounded 
by Thirty-first and Thirty-third streets, and Seventh and Ninth avenues 
—a site acquired for the purpose at a cost of $8,000,000. There are 
twenty-five tracks and more than two miles of platforms. A bridge 
extends over the tracks from Thirty-first to Thirty-third streets, with 
stairways leading down to the tracks. The work of construction took 
three years; the cost, including terminals, approximating $50,000,000. 



Staten Island, lying south of New York Bay, five miles distant 
from Manhattan Island, constitutes the Borough of Richmond in Greater 
New York. The island has an area of sixty square miles. Its green 
slopes and wooded hills form a pleasing feature in the harbor views; 
and the fortified height of Fort Wadsworth, commanding the Narrows, 
is the first land closely approached by incoming vessels from sea. An 
excursion to Staten Island by ferryboat from the Battery gives a good 
opportunity of seeing New York Bay. A conspicuous landmark on the 
island is the dome of the church of Sailors' Snug Harbor. The Harbor 
was founded in 1801 as a home for unfortunate and disabled seamen by 
Robert Richard Randall, who bequeathed for the purpose his farm in 
New York. Among the buildings of the Harbor, the church is specially 
worthy of inspection for the fine marbles of the interior. There is in 
the grounds a statue of Randall, by St. Gaudens. 

The tall chimney seen to the northwest of Staten Island is in Bayonne, 
N. J., and carries off the fumes of the great copper smelting works there. 
It is 36s feet high, and is reputed to be the tallest chimney in the world 



HERE AND THERE IN NEW YORK. 121 

Here and There in New York. 

Greater New York comprises the five Boroughs of Manhattan, 
Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. The Borough of Manhattan 
includes Manhattan Island and Governor's, Ellis, Bedloe's, BlackweU's, 
Ward's, Randall's and Riker islands. The Borough of the Bronx com- 
prises all that portion between the Harlem and Long Island Sound. 
The Borough of Brooklyn includes all of Kings county. The Borough 
of Queens includes all the annexed district lying in Queens county. The 
Borough of Richmond includes all of Staten Island. 

The Bowery extends from Chatham Square north to Cooper Union, 
where Third and Fourth avenues diverge. In the old Dutch days it was 
the Bouwerie Lane between the bouweries or farms; and later it be- 
came the Boston Post Road; a mile-stone at Rivingston street still 
marks one mile from the old City Hall in Wall street. Almost as re- 
mote as the Dutch farmers who gave it its name are the Bowery Boys, 
who fifty years ago made the street famous. The peculiar features of 
the old Bowery live only in tradition; but it still has characteristics all 
its own. There is presented here an extraordinary collection of beer 
saloons, concert gardens, tramp lodging houses, shooting galleries, low 
whiskey "dives," dime museums, penny amusement arcades, tattooing 
establishments, theatres and more beer saloons; while sandwiched in 
between the saloons and the lodging houses are numerous shops, whose 
proprietors are hopefully striving to live down the refrain of the popular 
song — 

The Bow'ryl the Bow'ryl 

They say such things, and they do strange thing*. 
On the Bow'ry, the Bow'ryl 

I'll never go there any more. 

But this is only on aspect of the street. There are multitudes with 
whom the Bowery means thrift, for in the Bowery Savings Bank, with 
its more than 144,000 depositors and over $101,000,000 of deposits, we 
have one of the largest savings bank in the world. 

The Bible House, Fourth avenue and Eighth street, opposite Cooper 
Union, is the home of the American Bible Society, organized in 1816 
to circulate the Holy Scriptures. In the office of the General Agent 
(No. 6 Bible House) they will give you a circular containing a specimen 
text in each of the 242 different languages and dialects, in which 66,000,000 
copies of the Bible circulated by the Society have been printed. 

Cooper Union, for the Advancement of Science and Art, was 
founded by Peter Cooper in 1859. He gave for the building and its 
endowment nearly a million dollars. The purpose is to provide instruc- 
tion at night for young people who work by day; and in doing this the 
Union has been one of the most beneficent philanthropies of the city 



122 NEW YORK. 

The night schools in science and art — mathematics, engineering, elec- 
tricity, chemistry, etc. — have been attended by nearly 100,000 different 
persons. Recent gifts by Andrew Carnegie, Edward Cooper and A. S. 
Hewitt have now made provision for day instruction also. There are 
a Women's Art School, for instruction in drawing, painting and pho- 
tography, and schools in telegraphy, stenography and typewriting for 
women. The free library and reading room (with hundreds of news- 
papers and periodicals) is visited by more than 2,000 readers a day; 
it is open from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M., and Sundays, October to May, 
12 to 9. The Museum for the Decorative Arts is open 9 to 5 daily 
except Sunday and Monday. Free lectures in the Hall, on Wednesday 
and Sajturday evenings in winter, are attended by 10,000 persons a week. 
The Hall of Cooper Union is used for political and other meetings, and 
has been the scene of many memorable gatherings. Abraham Lincoln 
delivered his Cooper Institute speech here Feb. 27, i860, and from that 
day to this most of the great orators of America have been heard here; 
and speeches have been made which have affected city, state and nation. 
In Cooper Union Park, south of the building, is a statue of Peter 
Cooper, by Augustus St. Gaudens, who was a pupil in Cooper Union: 

Erected by the citlxeni of liew York In grateful remembrance of Peter 
Cooper, lonnder of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and 
Art. Anne Domini HDCCCXCVII. 

St. Mark's Church, at Tenth street and Second avenue, has in 
teresting historical associations, for it occupies the oldest church site 
on Manhattan Island. It replaced in 1799 the Bouwerie Church, built 
by Peter Stuyvesant, the last of the Dutch Governors, on his Great 
Bouwerie, or farm, which extended from the line of Fourth avenue 
to the East River. A bit of the old farm now bears the name of 
Stuyvesant Square. Stuyvesant was buried in the churchyard in 1672, 
in the vault which is still marked by the memorial stone with its in- 
scription : 

In this vault lies burled Petrus Stuyvesant, late Captain General and 
Gorernor-ln-Chlef of Amsterdam In New Netherland, now called ITew 
York, and the Dutch West India Islands, died In A. D. 167V^ aged 80 yean. 

"The Little Church Around the Comer" is a familiar name for the 
Church of the Transfiguration, on East Twenty-ninth street, near Fifth 
avenue. The story goes that when in 1871 Joseph Jefferson endeavored 
to arrange for the funeral of George Holland, a brother actor, at a 
church on Madison avenue, the pastor said that he could not hold burial 
services over the body of an actor. "But," he added, "there is a little 
church around the corner you can go to." "Then all honor to the little 
church around the corner," replied Jefferson. "We will go there." From 
that time the church and its rector. Rev. George H. Houghton (who 
died in 1897) were held in affectionate regard by the theatrical pro- 
fession. Many actors have been buried from the church, among them 
Lester Wallack, Dion Boucicault and Edwin Booth. There is a memorial 
window given by The Players (the actors' club), in loving memory of 
Booth. The beautiful churchyard is entered through a lich-gate. This 



HERE AND THERE IN NEW YORK. 

is a roofed gate, unique in this country, but of a type formerly com- 
mon in Europe, when the custom was to rest the bier in the lich-gate 
during the reading of the introductory part of the burial service. 

John Street Methodist Church.— The John Street M. E. Church, at 
44 John street, called the "Cradle of American Methodism," is the oldest 
Methodist church in America. It was founded by Philip Embury in 
1766; the first edifice was erected in 1768, a second one on the same 
site in 1817, and the present structure in 1841. There are treasured here 
Philip Embury's Bible, Bishop Asbury's chair and the clock which John 
Wesley sent over from England, and which still ticks off the time. 

Fraunces* Tavern, on the southeast corner of Broad and Pearl sts., 
contains on the second floor the famous "long room," in which General 
Washington took affecting leave of his officers and aides Dec. 4, 1783, 
before proceeding to Congress to surrender his commission. The Tavern 
was built in 1700. It was opened as a tavern by Samuel Fraunces in 
1762. The building has been restored by the Sons of the Revolution. 
The first floor is still a tavern; the second floor contains a display of 
historical relics, opened Dec. 4, 1907. 

The Titanic Memorial Lighthouse, surmounting the twelve-story 
building of the Seamen's Institute, South street and Coenties Slip, is 
a memorial to those who perished in the Titanic tragedy of April 15, 
1912. At the dedication, addresses declared the Lighthouse Tower to be 
"given in memory of the engineers who sent their stokers up on deck 
while »they went to certain death ; of the members of the heroic band 
of musicians who played even while the water crept up to their instru- 
ments; of the postal clerks who bravely put duty ahead of personal 
safety; of the Marconi operator; of the officers and crew who staid 
by their ship. It is given in memory of those in the steerage who 
perished without ever realizing their hopes of the new land, the America 
of endless possibilities. It is given in memory of all the heroic deds 
by first and second cabin passengers. In short, it is a monument to 
every person without regard to rank, race, creed or color, whose life 
went down when the giant vessel slipped beneath the waves. 

"This Tower is identical with the accepted form of lighthouse with 
stairs in the rear, a lantern gallery and a fixed, green light which shines 
out over New York Harbor and is visible to all the lower anchorage down 
through the Narrows to Sandy Hook. Surmounting the Tower is a 
Time Ball. Just at five minutes before twelve each noon the gleaming 
ball is hoisted to the top of the steel rod. And promptly at noon when 
the time is flashed over the wire from Washington, the ball drops. 
By it are set the chronometers of the schooners creeping along the 
coast; of the great four-masted ships loaded with oil for the far East; 
of the tramp steamer setting out for South Africa ; and of the passenger 
md cargo boats sailing for the West Indies and South America. Situated 
just where the island of Manhattan turns, on the corner of South street 
ind Coenties Slip, the new building of the Seamen's Institute com- 
mands the attention of every vessel entering the great harbor of New 
York, whether by way of Sandy Hook or through Hell Gate." 



Brooklyn. 



Greenwood Cemetery is reached by the Fifth avenue elevated or 
surface line from the Bridge. The cemetery, one of the most beautiful 
in the world, has an area of 474 acres, stretching along a slope whose 
summit it has crowned with monuments. From the Pilots' Monument 
to Thomas Freeborn, a New York pilot who lost his life piloting a ship 
on the New Jersey coast, we may look far out to sea; and the shaft 
is visible from ships entering the harbor. From the Soldiers' Monu- 
ment, in memory of the 148,000 soldiers of New York State, who died 
in the Civil War, another far-reaching prospect may be had. One may 
wander for hours through the streets of this vast city of the dead 
(there are fifteen miles of walks), and at every turn find something to 
challenge attention. The most famous memorial is the exquisitely carved 
monument of Charlotte Canda, a New York girl who, on her eighteenth 
birthday, as she was returning from a party given in her honor, was 
thrown from her carriage and killed. This monument that marks her 
grave she herself had designed for an aunt. The most costly piece of 
work is the $225,000 monument of Marcus Daly. Among hundreds of 
others may be noted the tomb of James Gordon Bennett, remarkable 
for the silken sheen of the sculptured drapery; the portrait bust of 
Horace Greeley, cast from type metal given by the printers of America; 
the bronze statue of De Witt Clinton; the stone from the Brooklyn 
Bridge marking the grave of Wm. C. Kingsley, a former president of 
the Board of Trustees ; the medallion angel face carved by Hiram Powers, 
the Griffith "Farewell" memorial, the figure of "Grief" of the John 
Matthews tomb, the Channey monument cut by prisoners in Sing Sing. 
We shall find here many familiar names — Morse of the telegraph, Howe 
of the sewing machine, Peter Cooper, Henry Ward Beecher, Henry 
George, Alice and Phoebe Cary. Those who sleep in Greenwood num- 
ber more than 300,000, and the solemn bell in the tower of the Gothic 
gate tolls through the hours of the day at the entering in of others 
to join the silent hosts. 

Prospect Park. — From the Brooklyn Bridge the Flatbush avenue 
cars take one directly to the Plaza, which is the principal gate. Here 
is the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, to commemorate those who 
died in the Civil War; the bronze groups by Macmonnies symbolize the 
Army, the Navy, and the chariot of Victory led by heralds of peace 
South of the Plaza is the statue of General Warren. From the top of 
the Brooklyn water reservoir a view may be had extending from \he 
Long Island coast in the east beyond Manhattan to the New Jersey 
hills in the west; the tower is a noted landmark. In natural grandeur 
Prospect rivals Central Park; it is well named, for its hills command 

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BROOKLYN. 125 

many a lovely prospect; particularly famous are those from Lookout 
Hill. The Park has extensive groves of forest trees, a lake of sixty- 
one acres, with winding arms, arched bridges and charming shores, and 
there are flower gardens and conservatories. A monument on the slope 
of Prospect Hill marks Battle Pass, where fell 450 Maryland soldiers, 
defending the American retreat after the battle of Long Island. The 
Park has memorials of John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet 
Home"; Irving, Lincoln, Moore, Mozart and James S. T. Stranahan, 
an honored citizen to whom, more than to any other person, Brooklyn 
owes its beautiful pleasure ground. 

From the southeast corner of Prospect Park the Ocean Parkway, a 
magnificent boulevard, with driveway, speedway and shaded cycle paths 
and bridle paths, extends five and one-half miles to Coney Island. A 
short distance northeast from the Plaza entrance is the Museum of the 
Brooklyn Institute, in which are collections illustrating natural history 
and ethnology. An admission of 25 cents is charged Monday and Tues- 
day; other days, free. 

The Brookl5m Navy Yard is visited by pass, which is given on 
Application at the entrance. The Navy Yard is reached by Flushing 
avenue car from the Bridge. The shipbuilding shops, dry docks, war- 
ships, guns, naval trophies, curiosities in the Lyceum, and the varied 
activities of the chief naval station of the United States, furnish abundant 
interest. The Navy Yard is on Wallabout Bay, where thousands of 
Americans perished in the British prison-ships of the Revolution. In 
Fort Greene Park, nearby, the tomb of a number of the prison-ship 
martyrs is marked with a sculptured memorial by Macmonnies, a marble 
censer, emblematic of a perpetual incense offering. 

The Pratt Institute, the school of science and industrial art, founded 
by Giarles Pratt (who gave for it nearly $4,000,000), is in Ryerson street, 
near De Kalb avenue. Visiting days are Monday, Wednesday and 
Friday. 

Partridge's equestrian statue of Grant stands in front of the Union 
League Gub, Bedford avenue and Bergen street. It represents the 
General as he appeared at the Battle of the Wilderness. Ward's statue 
of Henry Ward Beecher stands in the plaza facing the City Hall on 
Fulton street. Plymouth Church, which was Beecher' s pulpit from 
1847 to 1887, is on Orange street, between Hicks and Henry, within 
short walking distance from the Bridge. 

Coney Island is reached by trolley or elevated railroad from the 
Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan side. Also in summer by Iron Steamboat 
Co. from the Battery and other points ; see announcements in daily papers 



Ready Reference Guide. 



i67th St. 

170th St. 

Belmont St. 

176th St. 
*New York University. 

183d St. 

Fordham Road. 

Kingsbridge Road. 

Bedford Park Boulevard 

Mosholu Parkway. 
*Woodlawn. 



SUBWAY STATIONS 

•Express stations. 
EAST TRUNK LINE. 

First Subway and Lexington Ave. Line. 161st St. 
*South Ferry. 
•Bow'ling Green. 
"Wall St. and Broadway. 
*Fulton St. and Broadway. 

City Hall (Loop), B'way & Murray St. 
•Brooklyn Bridge Park Row & Centre. 

Worth and Lafayette Sts. 

Canal and Lafayette Sts. . 

Spring and Lafayette Sts. 

Bleecker and Lafayette Sts. 

Astor Place (8th St.) and Fourth Ave. 
•14th St. and Fourth Ave. 

18th St. and Fourth Ave. 

23d St. and Fourth Ave 

28th St. and Fourth Ave. 

33d St. and Fourth Ave. 
•Grand Central Sta -^2d St. (See Note A.) 

51st St. and Lexington Ave. 

59th St. and Lexington Ave. 

68th St. and Lexington Ave. 

77th St, and Lexington Ave. 
•86th St. and Lexington Ave. 

96th St. and Lexington Ave. 

103d St. and Lexington Ave. 

110th St. and Lexington Ave. 

116tfa St. and Lexington Ave. 
•125th St. ano Lexington Ave. 



River and Jerome Ave. Branch. 
Mott Haven, 
*149th St. 



Pelham Bay Park Branch. 

•Third Avenue. 

Brook Ave. 

Cypress Ave 

143d St. 

149th St. 

Longwood Ave. 
•Hunt's Point Ave. 

Whitlock Ave. 

Elder Ave. 

Classon's Point Road 

St. Lawrence Ave. 
•177th St. 

Castle Hill Ave. 

Zerega Ave. 

Westchester Square. 

Middletown Road. 

Buhre Ave 
•Pelham Bay Park. 



SUBWAYS FROM MANHATTAN TO BROOKLYN. 
£ast Trunk Line diverges at Bowling Green to Borough Hall, Hoyt St., Nevins St 
and Atlantic Ave. (Long Island R. R.). 

West Trunk Line by William street branch (Note B) runs (April, 1919) to Clark 

street and Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. 
Broadway— Fifty-ninth Street Subway express trains diverge at Canal street to 

connect with Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) Subway. 
The Qneensboro Subway, connecting at Grand Central with the Manhattan lines 

runs to Corona and Astoria. 
Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn) Subway starts at Chambers street (Municipal Building). 

Manhattan, and runs to Bay Ridge and Coney Island. Connects with Broadway 

Fifty-ninth Street Subway at Canal street. 



NOTE A. — The East Trunk Line and the West Trunk Line are connected by shuttle 
trains running between Grand Central Station and Times Square. 

NOTE B. — The express trains on the Seventh Avenue Line diverge at Chambers 
street to Park Row (at Broadway), Fulton street (at William street), and Wall 
street (at William). Thence by tunnel to Clark street and Atlantic avenue, 
Brooklyn. 

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SUBWAY STATIONS. 

*Express stations. 
WEST TRUNK LINE. 
Seventh Avenue Line and First Subway. 207th St. and Amsterdam Ave. 



South Ferry. 

Rector St. 

Cortlandt St. 
•Chambers St. 

Franklin St. 

Canal St. 

Houston St. 

Christopher St. 

Sheridan Square. 
•14th St. and 7th Ave. 

18th St. and 7th Ave. 

23d St. and 7th Ave. 

28th St. and 7th Ave. 



(See Note B.) 



215th St. and Broadway. 

225th St., Kingsbridge. 

231st St. (Bailey Ave) and Broadway. 

238th St. and Broadway. 

242d St. (Van Cortlandt Park). 

Lenox Ave. and West Farms Branch. 
96th St. and Broadway. 
UOth St. and Lenox Ave. 
116th St. and Lenox Ave. 
i25th St. and Lenox Ave. 
I35th St. and Lenox Ave. 
145th St- and Lenox Ave. 
Mott Ave. and 149th St. 
Third Ave. and 149th St. 
Jackson Ave. and Westchester Ave. 



•Pennsylvania Station. 

Times Sq.-^2d St. & B'way. (See Note A) 

50th St. and Broadway. 

Columbus Circle— 59th St. and Broadway. Prospect Ave. and Westchester Ave. 

66th St. and Broadway. Intervale Ave. and Westchester Ave. 

•72d St. and Broadway. Simpson St. and Westchester Ave. 

79th St. and Broadway. Freeman St. and Southern Boulevard. 

86th St. and Broadway. 174th St. and Boston Road. 

91st St. and Broadway. 177th St. and Boston Road. 

•96th St. and Broadway. Bronx Park. 



Broadway Branch. 

96th St. and Broadway. 
103d St. and Broadway. 
110th St. and Columbia University. 
116th St. and Broadway. 
Manhattan St.— 128th St. 
137th St. and Broadway. 
145th St. and Broadway. 
lS7th St. and Broadway. 
Ueth St. and Broadway. 
181st St. and 11th Ave. 
191st St. 
Dyckman St. and Naegle Ave. 



White Plains Road Extension (Elevated). 

180th St. 
•Morris Park. 

Bronx Park East. 

Pelham Parkway. 

Allerton Ave. 

Burke Ave. 
•Gun Hill Road. 

219th St. 

225th St. 

233d St. 

Nereid Avenue. 
•241st St. 



The West Farms express trains of the Subway run through to Brooklyn; tb* 
fare between any point in New York and any station in Brooklyn is 5 cents. 

BROADWAY— FIFTY-NINTH STREET SUBWAY. 



Whitehall St. 

Rector St. 

Cortlandt St. 

(Hudson Terminal). 
•City Hall. 

Canal Street. 

Prince Street. 

Eighth Street. 
•Union Square. 

Express trains diverge 
Avenue Subway. 

Connects (Nov. 1, 1919) at Lexington Ave., Syth and 60th Sts., with Queens Lines. 



23d Street. 

28th Street. 
•34th Street. 
•Times Square. 

49th Street. 
•57th Street. 

Fifth Ave., 59th & 60th Sts. 

Lexington Ave., 59th & 60th Sts. 

at Canal street and connect with Brooklyn Fourth 



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ELEVATED RAILROADS. 

The four lines start at the Battery and run to the Harlem River. The stations 

are shown on the folding map, and are as follows: 

Ninth Avenue Line— South Ferry, Battery Place, Rector, Cortlandt, Barclay, Warren, 
Franklin, Desbrosses, Houston, Christopher, West 14th, 23d, 30th, 34th, 42d, 50th, 
59th, 66th, 72d, 81st, 86th, 93d, 99th, 104th, 110th, 116th, 125th, 130th, 135th, 140th, 
145th, 151st, 155th. Thence subway and elevated railroad to Sedgwick Ave., An- 
derson and Jerome Aves., and connection with the Jerome Avenue (elevated) 
Branch of the Lexington Avenue Subway. 

Sixth Avenue Line— South Ferry, Battery Place, Rector, Cortlandt, Park Place, 
Chambers, Franklin, Grand, Bleecker, 8th, 14th, 18th, 23d, 28th, 33d, 38th, 42d, 
50th (branch to 58th St. and 6th Ave.), 53d St. and 8th Ave., 59th St. and 
Columbus Ave., 66th, 72d, 81st, 86th, 93d, 99th, 104th, 110th, 116th, 125th, 130th, 
135th, 140th, 145th, 151st, 155th. Thence to Jerome Avenue Branch, same as Ninth 
Avenue Line. 

Third Avenue Line— South Ferry, Hanover Square, Fulton, Franklin Square, Chatham 
Square (whence branch to City Hall), Canal, Grand, Houston, East 9th» 14th, 
18th, 23d, 28th, 34th, 42d (branch to Grand Central Station), 47th, 53d, 59th, 67tli, 
76th, 84th, 89th, 99th, lG6th, 116th, 125th, 129th, thence to 133d, 138th, 143d, 149th, 
156th, 161st, 166th, 169th, Claremont Parkway (172d), 174th, 177th (Tremont Ave*), 
180th, 183d, Pelham Ave. (Fordham), Bronx Park, 200th, 204th, Williamsbridge 
(210th), White Plains Road. 

At 34th street, shuttle service to 34th St. Ferry. 
At 129th St., shuttle service to Willis Ave. Station, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. 

Second Avenue Line— South Ferry, Hanover Square, Fulton St., Franklin Square, 
Chatham Square (branch to City Hall), Canal, Grand, Rivington, 1st, 8th, 14th, 
19th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 50th, 57th, 65th, 72d, 80th, 86th, 92d, 99th, 111th, 117th, 121st, 
125th, 129th, thence via Third Avenue Line to Pelham Avenue. 
At 34th street, shuttle service to 34th St. Ferry. 

All lines run all night (except the Second Avenue — ^f rom 12 :43 A. M. to 5 A. M.). 
Fare 5 cents; children under 5 years free. Free transfers between 6th and 9th Ave. 
are given at Rector St. and 59th St. ; between 6th and 9th and 3d and 2d Aves. at the 
Battery; between 3d and 2d at Chatham Square, and between City Hall trains and 
South Ferry trains of the Third Avenue Line at Chatham Square. Transfers are 
given to certain surface lines for an extra fare of 3 cents, paid when buying the 
elevated ticket. 

BLACEWELL'S, ELLIS, HART'S AND OTHER ISLANDS. 
Blackwell's Island— Ferry from East 26th. East 53d, or East 70th St. For required 

pass apply Department of Charities, foot of East 26th St. 
Ellis Island— Ferry foot of Whitehall St., Battery. No pass is required. 
Farm Colony— Staten Island Ferry from East 26th St., or from North 2d St., Brook- 
lyn. Pass from Department of Charities, foot East 26th St. 
Hart's Island— Ferry from East 26th St., or foot Fordham Ave., City Island. Pass 

from Department of Correction, 148 East 20th St. 
North Brother Island— Ferry foot of East 132d St. 
Randall's Island— Ferry foot East 26th, East 120th, or East 125th St. Pass from 

Department of Charities, foot East 26th St. 
Hiker's Island— Ferry foot East 26th St. Pass from Department of Correction, 148 

East 20th St. 
Ward's Island— Ferry from East 116th St. Pass from Manhattan State Hospital, 

foot East 26th St. 
Governor's Island— Ferry from foot of Whitehall St., Battery. Pass required; 

obtained at the ferry. 
Liberty Island— From the Battery. 
Staten Island— From Whitehall St. 



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RAILROAD STATIONS. 

Grand Central Terminal is on 42d St., at Madison, Fourth and Lexington Aves. 
Pennsylvania Terminal is on 7th Ave., West 33d and 34th Sts. 
Hudson Terminal— Fulton, Dey and Cortlandt Sts., one block west of Broadway. 
Baltimore & Ohio— Pennsylvania Terminal. Hudson Terminal, 

Central of New Jersey— For Pennsylvania R. R. and B & O., Pennsylvania Ter 
minal. Hudson Terminal. 
For Central R. R. of New Jersey, and Philadelphia & Reading, foot Liberty 

and foot West 23d St. Also in summer, Sandy Hook boats from Cedar St, 

and West 42d St. 
Erie— Chambers. West 23d. Also Hudson Tubes. 
Harlem — Grand Central Station. 

Lackawanna— Barclay. Christopher. West 23d. Also Hudson Tubes. 
Lehigh Valley— Pennsylvania Terminal. Hudson Terminal. 
Long Branch— (Central of New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.) 
Long Island — Pennsylvania Terminal. 
New England— Grand Central. 
New Haven—Grand Central. 

New Haven (Harlem River Branch)— Willis Ave. and 130th St. 
N. Y. & Putnam— ISGth St. terminus of Sixth Ave. Elevated. 
N. Y. Central— Grand Central Station. 
N. Y., Susquehanna & Western— Same as Erie 

Northern of New Jersey— Chambers. West 23d. Also Hudson Tubes. 
Ontario & Western— Cortlandt St. West 42d St.. 

Pennsylvania— Pennsylvania Terminal, 7th Ave., West 33d and 34th Sts. 
Philadelphia & Reading— Liberty. West 23d St. 
Staten Island—Municipal Ferry, foot of Whitehall St. 
West Shore— Cortlandt. West 42d St. 

STEAMSHIPS. 

American Line— Pier 62, North River, foot of West 22d S' 

Anchor Line— Pier 64, North River, foot of West 24th S^. 

Atlantic Transport— Pier 58, North River, foot of West 16th St. 

Clyde Line— Pier 36, North River, foot of Spring St. 

Conipagnie Generale Transatlantique- Pier 57, N. R., foot of 15th St. 

Compania Transatlantica— Pier 8, East River. 

Cunard Line— Piers 54, 55 and 56, North River, foot of West 14th St. 

Fabre Line— Foot of 31st St , Brooklyn. 

French Line— Piers 57 and 58, North River. 

Holland-American Line— Pier foot of 5th St., Hoboken. 

Lamport and Holt Line— Pier 8, Brooklyn. 

Lloyd Brazileiro— Foot of. 43d St., Bush Docks, South Brooklyn. 

Mallory Line— Piers 36, 38. North River. 

Munson Line— Pier 9, East River, Old Slip. 

New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Co. (.Ward Line)— Piers 13 and 14. East River 

New York ft Porto Rico Steamship Co.— Pier 35, Atlantic Dock, 

Ocean Steamship Co. — Pier 35, North River, foot of Spring St. 

Old Dominion Line— Pier 25, North River. 

Quebec Steamship Co., Ltd.— Pier 47, North River, foot of 10th St. 

Red Cross Line— Pier B, foot of Richard St., Erie Basin, Brooklyn. 

Red "D" Line— Pier 11, foot of Montague St., Brooklyn. 

Red Star Line— Pier 61, North River, foot of 21st St. 

Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.— Pier 42, North River, foot of Morton St. 

Southern Pacific Co.— Pier 48, North River, foot of West 11th St. To New Orleans 

United Fruit Co.'s Steamship Lines— Pier 9, North River. 

White Star Line— Piers 60 and 61, North River, foot of 20th and 21st Sts. 

Wilson Line- Foot of 7th St.. Hoboken. 



130 READY REFERENCE GUIDE. 

HUDSON RIVER STEAMBOAT LINES. 

Central Hudson Line— Franklin St. 

Hudson River Day Line — Desbrosses, West 42d and West 129th Sts. 

Hudson River Night Line (People's) — Canal St., Pier 32. 

Ramsdell Line— Franklin St. 

Troy (Citizens') Line— West 10th St. 

SOUND BOATS. 

Fall River Line— Fulton St., North River. 

Hartford— Peck Slip, East River. 

New Haven Line— Catherine St., East River. 

New London— Clarkson St., North River. 

Providence Line— Murray St. ; Pier IS, North River. 

ATLANTIC HIGHLAND BOATS. 
Atlantic Highlands (Sandy Hook Route)— Cedar St. and West 42d St. Connett* 
with Central R. R. of New Jersey. 

NORTH RIVER PIERS. 



A & 1— Battery 


Place. 


32 & 33— Watts & Canal. 


61— VV. 21si. 


2 & 3— Battery PI. 


& Morris 


34— Canal. 




62— W. 22d. 


A — Morris. 






35 — Spring. 




63-W. 23d. 


5 & 6— Morris 


& 


Rector 


36 — Spring and 


Charlton. 


64— W. 24th. 


7— Rector. 






37— Charlton. 




65— W. 25th. 


»— Rector & 


Carlisle. 


38-King. 




66— W, 26th. 


9-Carliile. 






39— W. Houston. 




67- W. 27th 


10— Albany. 






40— Clarkson. 




68— W. 28th 


11— Cedar. 






41— Leroy. 




69-W. 29tK 


13— Cortlandt & Dey. 


42— Morton. 




70— W. 30tL 


14— Fulton. 






43 — Barrow. 




71— W. 31st. 


15— Vesey. 






44 — Christopher. 




72— W. 32d. 


16 — Barclay. 






45— W. 10th. 




73-W. 33d. 


17— Park Place 


, 




46— Charles, 




74— W. 34th. 


18— Murray. 




, 


47— Perry. 




75-W. 3Sth. 


1^— Warren. 






48— W. 11th. 




76— W. 36th, 


20— Chambers. 






49— Bank St. 




77-W. 37th. 


21— Duane. 






50— Bethune & 


W. 12th. 


78— W. 38th. 


22-Jay. 






51— Jane. 




79— W. 39th. 


23 — Harrison. 






52— Gansevoort. 




80— W. 40th. 


24— Franklin. 






53— Bloomfield. 




81— W. 41st. 


25— North Moore. 




54-W. 13th. 




83— W. 43d. 


26— Beach. 






56— W. 14th. 




84— W. 44th. 


27— Hubert. 






57- W. 15th. 




85-W. 45th. 


28— Laight. 






58— W. 16th. 




R(^W. 46th. 


29— Vestry. 






59— W. 18th. 




87— W. 47th. 


30— Desbrosses 






60— W. 19th. 




88— W. 48th. 


31— Watts. 


















EAST RIVER PIERS. 


4— Broad. 






14— Maiden Lane. 


19 & 20— Peck Slip 


5-8— Coenties 


SI 


ip. 


15 & 16— Burling 


Slip. 


21— Dover. 


8-10— Coentie? 


& Old Slip. 


17— Fulton. 




22— James Slip 


12— Wall. 






18— Beekman. 




25— Oliver. 


13— Wall and 


Pine. 









HUDSON TUBE STATIONS. 
To Jersey City and Railroad Connections. 

Downtown— Terminal Building, Fulton, Dey and Cortlandt streets. 

Uptown— Christopher St., Sixth Avenue stations at 9th. 14th. 19th. 23d, 28th, 33d St» 



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131 



HOTELS. 



Those marked 'vith an * are America 

Albemarle— 203 W. 54th St. 
Albert — Uni^tisity Place. 
Algonquin- 59 W. 44th St. . 
America— 102 E. 15th St. 
Ansonia— Broadway and 73d St. 
Arlington*— 18 VV. 25th St. 
Astor— Broadway and 44th St. 
Athens— 30 E. 42d St. 
Belleclaire— Broadway and 77th St. 
Belmont— Park Ave. and 42d St. 
Biltmore — 43d St. and Madison Ave. 
Breslin— Broadway and 29th St. 
Bretton Hall— Broadway and 86th St. 
Brevoort— 5th Ave. and 8th St. 
Bristol*— 122 W. 49th St. 
Broadway Central*— Broadway & 3d St. 
Broztell— 5th Ave. and 27th St. 
Buckingham— 5th Ave. and S9th St. 
Cadillac— Broadway and 43d St. 
Calumet— 340 W. 57th St. 
Chelsea— 222 W. 23d St. 
Claridge— Broadway and 44th St. 
Clendening*— 202 W. 103d St. 
Collingwood^t5 W. 35th St. 
Commodore— E. 42d St. & Lexington Ave. 
Cumberland— Broadway and 54th St. 
Devon— 70 W. 55th St. 
Earle*— 103 Waverly Place. 
Empire— Broadway and 63d St. 
Endicott— Columbus Av. & 81st St. 
Felix-Portland— 132 W. 47th St. 
Flanders— 135 W. 47th St. 
Fourteen East 60th St.— 14 E. 60th St, 
Gerard— 123 W. 44th St. 
Gotham— 5th Ave. and 55th St. 
Grand— Broadway and 31st St. 
Great Northern— 118 W. 57th St. 
Gregorian-^2 W. 35th St. 
Hargrave— 112 W. 72d St. 
Herald Square— 34th St. and Broadway. 
Hermitage— 7th Ave. and 42d St. 
Holland House— 5th Ave. and 30th St. 
Holley* — Washington Square West. 
Imperial— Broadway and 32d St. 
Iroquois*— 49 W. 44th St. 
Judson* — 53 Washington Square. 
Knickerbocker— Broadway and 42d St. 
Langdon— Fifth Ave. and 56th St 
Latham— 4 East 28th St. 
Le Marquis— 12 E. 31st St. 
Leonori*— Madison Ave. and 63d St. 
Longacre — 47th St. and Broadway. 
Lorraine— Fifth Ave. and 45th St. 



n and European. All others European, 

Lucerne— Amsterdam Ave. & 79th St. 
McAlpin— Broadway and 34th St. 
Madison Square— 37 Madison Ave. 
Majestic— 72d St. & Central Park West. 
Manhattan— Madison Ave. & 42d St, 
Marie Antoinette— Broadway and 76th St. 
Marlborough— Broadway and 36th St. 
Martha Washington— 29 E. 29th St. 
Martinique— Broadway & 33d St. 
Mills, New— 7th Ave. and 36th St. 
Murray Hill— Park Ave. and 41st St. 
Navarre— 7th Ave. and 38th St. 
Netherland~5th Ave. and 59th St. 
Park Avenue— Park Ave. and 33d St. 
Pennsylvania— 7th Ave., 32d-33d Sts. 
Plaza— 5th Ave. and 59th St. 
Prince George— 14 E. 28th St, 
Raymond*— 42 East 28th St. 
Remington— 129 W, 46th St. 
Richmond— 70 W. 46th St. 
Ritz-Carlton— Madison Ave. & 46th St. 
Robert Fulton— 228 W. 71st St. 
Roland— 56 E. 59th St. 
Royalton-^M W. 44th St. 
St. Andrew— Broadway and 72d St. 
St. Denis — Broadway and 11th St. 
St. Hubert— 120 W. 57th St. 
St. James— 109 West 45th St. 
St. Paul— Columbus Ave. and 60th St, 
St. Regis— 5th Ave. and 55th St, 
San Remo*— Central Park W. & 74th St. 
Savoy— 5th Ave. and 59th St, 
Seville— Madison Ave, & 29th St. 
Seymour^44 W, 45th St. 
Sherman Square— Broadway & 71st St. 
Somerset— 150 W. 47th St. 
Southern— 54th St., near Broadway. 
Stratford House*— 11 E. 32d St. 
Times Square— 206 W. 43d St. 
Union Square— 15th St. & Union Sq. 
Vanderbilt— Madison Ave. & 34th St. 
Van Rensselaer— 17 E. 11th St. 
Waldorf-Astoria— 5th Av., 33d & 34th St»- 
Wallick— Broadway and 43d St. 
Walton— Columbus Ave. & 70th St. 
Weston— Madison Ave. and 49th St. 
Willard'-252 W. 76th St. 
Wolcott— 5th Ave. and 31st St. 
Woodstock— 127 W. 43d St. 
Woodward— Broadway and 55th St. 
Yates— 149 W. 43d St. 
York— 7th Ave. and 36th St. 



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THEATERS AND AMUSEMENT PLACES. 



Academy of Music— E I4th St. 
iEolian Hall— W. 42d St., bet. 5th & 6th. 
Alhambra— 7th Ave., 126th St. 
American— Eighth Ave., 42d St. 
Astor— Broadway and 45th St. 
Bandbox— 57th St. and 3d Ave. 
Belmont— 48th St., east of Broadway. 
Belasco— 44th St., near Broadway. 
BlJou — 45th St., west of Broadway. 
Booth — 45th, West of P^-oadway. 
Broadhurst — 44th St., west of Broadway. 
Broadway— Broadway, 41st St. 
Candler— 226 W. 42d St. 
Carnegie Lyceum— 57th St. & 7th Ave. 
Carnegie Music Hall— 57th St. 
Casino— Broadway, 39th St. 
Central— 47th St. and Broadway. 
Century— Eighth Ave. and 63d St. 
Circle— Broadway and 60th St. 
Cohan's— Broadway, 43d St. 
Cohan & Harris— 42d St. and 7th Ave. 
Columbia— 7th Ave., 47th St. 
Comedy— 41st St. and 6th Ave. 
Collier's — 41st St., east of Broadway. 
Colonial— Broadway and 62d St. 
Cort— 48th St., east of Broadway. 
Criterion— Broadway, 44th St. 
Eltinge— West 42d St. 
Empire— Broadway, near 40th St. 
Fifth Avenue— Broadway, near 28th St. 
Forty-eighth St.— 48th St., east of B'way. 
Forty-fourth St.— 44th St., near B'way. 
French Theater— 65 West 35th St. 
Fulton— W. 46th St., near Broadway. 
Gaiety — 46th St. and Broadway. 
Garrick— 35th St., near 6th Ave. 
Globe— Broadway, 46th St. 
Grand Central Palace— Lex. Av., 46th St. 
Grand Opera House— 23d St., 8th Ave. 
Greenwich Village— 4th St. & 7th Ave. 
Henry Miller's— 124 W. 43d St. 



Hippodrome— Sixth Ave. and 43d St. 
Hudson— W. 44th St. 
Irving Place — Irving Place. 
Knickerbocker— Broadway, at 38th St. 
Lexington Opera House— Lex. Av., 58th St. 
Lexington Theater— Lex. Av. & 51st St. 
Liberty— 234 West 42d St. 
Lincoln Square- 1947 Broadway. 
Little — 44th St., west of Broadway. 
Longacre — 48th St., west of Broadway. 
Lyceum — 45th St., near Broadway. 
Lyric^2d St., near 7th Ave. 
Madison Sq. Garden— Madison Av.,26th Su 
Manhattan Opera House— 315 W. 34th Si. 
Maxine Elliott's— 39th St., near B'way. 
Metropolitan Opera House— B'way, 40th St 
Morosco— 217 West 45th St. 
New Amsterdam— W. 42d St., W. of 7th Av. 
New York- Broadway, 45th St. 
Nora Bayes — 44th St., west of B'way. 
Palace— Broadway, 47th St. 
Park— 59th St. and Broadway. 
Playhouse — 48th St., east of Broadway. 
Plymouth— 236 West 45th St. 
Princess— 39th St. and Broadway. 
Proctor's— (1) 23d St. (2) 58th St. 

(3) B'way and 28th St. (4) E. 125th St. 
Punch and Judy — 49th St., east of B'way. 
Republic— 209 West 42d St. 
Rialto— 7th Ave. and 42d St. 
Rivoli— Broadway and 49th St. 
Selwyn— W. 42d St., west of 7th Ave. 
Shubert— 44th St., W. of Broadway. 
Shubert-Riviera- Broadway & 97th Si 
Strand— Broadway and 47th St. 
Stuyvesant— 115 West 44th St. 
Thirty-ninth Street— 39th, near B'way. 
Vanderbilt-^8th St., east of Broadway 
Weber's— Broadway, 29th St. 
West End— 125th St., 8th Ave. 
Winter Garden— SOth St. and Broadway 



HACK FARES. 

Code of Ordinances, City of New York, Chap. 14, Art. 8. 
Sec. 102. — Rates of Fare.— The maximum rates of fare for public hacks shall be a* 
fellows: 

1. Motor Vehicles, except "Sight-seeing" Cars. — For not more than 2 passengers: 
For the first half mile, or any fraction thereof, 30 cents; for each succeeding one- 
quarter mile, or any fraction thereof, 10 cents. For 3 or more passengers: For the 
first half mile, or any fraction thereof, 40 cents; for each succeeding one-sixth mile, 
or any fraction thereof, 10 cents. 

2. Sight-seeing Cars. — No rates are hereby established for sight-seeing cars, but a 
schedule of the rates charged for each trip shall, before the trip, be prominently dis- 
played upon the car, and a charge greater, or attempt to charge any passenger a 
lum greater than that set forth in said schedules, shall be deemed a violation of 
*t:s article. 



READY REFERENCE GUIDE. 133 

3. Horse-drawn Vehicles.— For cabs: For the first mile, or any fraction thereof, 
5C cents; for each succeeding one-half mile, or any fraction thereof, 20 cents. For 
coaches: For the first mile, or any fraction thereof, 70 cents; for each succeeding 
u lie-half mile, or any fraction thereof, 30 cents. 

4. Hourly Rates (applying only to horse-drawn vehicles when shopping or call- 
ing; not including park or road driving, nor driving more than 5 miles from start- 
ing point). — For the first hour, or any part thereof, $1.50; for each additional one 
half hour, 50 cents. 

5. Miles, in Manhattan. — In case of public hacks on which taximeters are not 
affixed, when driving on the numbered streets, or numbered and lettered avenues, in 
the Borough of Manhattan, 20 blocks north and south, and 7 blocks between the 
numbered and lettered avenues, constitute a mile for the purpose of this ordinance; 
this provision shall be set forth on the rate card hereinafter required. 

6. Applying Generally.— (a) For waiting time at the rate of $1.50 per hour, (b) For 
each piece of luggage carried outside, 20 cents. No charge shall, however, be madf 
for hand-bags and suit-cases, (c) Ferriage and tolls in all cases to be paid by the 
party using the vehicle. 

Sec. 103. Prepayment of Fare.— Every driver of a public hack shall have the right 
to demand payment of the legal fare in advance. No driver of a licensed hack 
shall carry any other person than the passenger first employing a hack, without 
the consent of said passenger. 

Sec. 104. Disputed Fares.— All disputes as to fares shall be determined by the or 
ticer in charge of the police station nearest to the place where the dispute is had 

CHURCHES. 

There are more than a thousand churches in Greater New York. A list of con- 
venient churches will be found in most hotels. The Saturday papers contain church 
announcements. Some churches of the several denominations are: 

Baptist: Protestant Episcopal: 

Calvary— West S7th St. Trinity— Broadway and Re'ctor. 

Madison Avenue— At 31st St. St. Paul's— Broadway and Vesey. 

_. . . . -, . ... Grace — Broadway and 10th St. 

Christian Scientist: o t., , t-- ^ , » ,,, , „ 

T!" ^i. r^-u u n ^ \ Ti y \\j n/r^u o* >^t. ihomas s — h ifth Ave. and 53d St. 

First Church — Central Park W., 96th St. 

^ .. , Reformed: 

Congregational: 

Broadway Tabernacle-B'way, 56th St- ^^•■^,l\^'!'"''''L7i'^ ^^^^ ^""^ ^^'^ ^' 
Plymouth-Brooklyn, Orange St. ^*- Nicholas-Fifth Ave. and 48th. 

Friends: ^°™^" Catholic: 

East 15th St., Rutherford Place ?'• f""^"".'' Xavier-West 16th St. 

St. Ignatius Loyola— Park Ave. & 84th 
^^^^^^' St. Leo's— No. 11 E. 28th St. 

Temple Beth-El-Fifth Ave., 76th Si. ^^ Patrick's Cathedral-5th Av., 50th St. 

Temple Emanu-El— Fifth Ave., 43d St. „ ,^ . 

Unitarian : 

Lutheran: Messiah-Park Ave. and E. 34th St. 

St. James — Madison Ave., E. 73d St. 

Universalist: 
Methodist Episcopal: Di^i„^ Paternity-Central Pk. W., 76th. 

John Street— 44 John St. 

Madison Avenue-Madison Av., 60th St- Salvation Army-No. 122 West 14th St. 
Presbyterian: Volunteers of America— No. 397 Bowery. 

Brick— Fifth Ave. and 37th St. Y. M. C. A.— No. 215 West 23d St. 

First— Fifth Ave. and 11th St. Y. W. C. A.— No. 7 East 15th St. 



STREET DIRECTORY. 



All numbered East Side streets from E. 8th to E. 142d begin at 5th Av. and run v,. 
East River. Beginning with E. 11th St., one hundred numbers are used on each 
block between the avenues (Madison and Lexington avenues not considered). The 
location of any given number is thus definitely indicated. 

All numbered West Side streets from W. 10th to W. 144th begin at 5th av. (eii- 
cept those from 59th to 109th, which begin at Central Park W.) and run to North or 
Hudson River, the same principle of numbering being used. 

All odd numbers are on the north side of the street, the even nu mbers on the south 
tide. 

Cross street numbers begin at 5th av. and progress, 100 to the block, as here: 



<r- WEST. 


EAST. -> 




> 
a 


> 

00 


> 
rt 


> 


> 
in 


i 


a 


> 

a 


> 

C/l 


< 

i 

< 


03 

< 


500 
to 
599 


400 
to 
499 


300 
to 
399 


200 
to 
299 


100 
to 
199 


1 

to 

99 


1 

to 
99 


100 
to 
199 


200 
to 
299 


300 
to 
399 


400 
to 
499 


500 
to 
599 



(ibingdon sq. Bleecker 
f'm Bank to 8th av., 
f'm 2 to 20 8th av., 
f'm 585 to 609 Hud- 
son 

A-cademy, f'm Harlem 
R., N. of Dyckman, 
W. to Seaman av. 

Albany, f'm 122 Green- 
wich, W. to N. R. 

Alexander Hamilton 
Pk., bet. 9th & 10th 
avs. &W. 27th & 28th 

Allen, f'm 104 Divi- 
sion, N. to E. Hous- 
ton 
12 Canal 
38 Hester 
66 Grand 
86 Broome 

114 Delancey 
140 Rivington 
170 Stanton 

Amsterdam av., con- 
tinuation of 10th av. 
f'm W. 59th to 218th 

115 W. 65th 
219 W. 70th 

Broadway 

317 W. 75th 
435 W. 81st 
535 W. 86th 
675 W. 93d 
897 W. 104th 
995 W. 109th 

1315 W. 125th 

1417 W. 130th 

1521 W. 135th 

1715 W. 145th 

1917 W. 155th 

2117 W. 165th 
Ann, f'm 222 Broad- 
way, E. to Gold 
<.stor Ct., f'm 21 W. 

33d, N. to W. 34th 
Astor PI., from 744 

B'way, E. to 3d av. 
Audubon av., f'm W. 

158th, bet. Amster- 

dam av. & B'way, 

N. to Ft. George av. 
Audubon Pk., bet. W. 

looth and 158th and 

B'way and 12th av. 
\y. A, from 230 E. 

Houston, N. to E. 

«3d 



294 
. to 



358 E. 
to E.R. 



426 E. 
to E.R. 



Green- 
R. 



224 E. 14th 

372 E. 23d 
1012 E. 55th 
1112 E. 60th 
1308 E. 70th 
1512 E. 80th 
1752 E. 92d 
Av. B, from 
Houston, N 
79th 

109 7th 

231 E. 14th 

— E. 20th 
Av. C, from 

Houston, N. 
104 7th 
212 E. 13th 

— E. 18th 
Av, D, from 

Houston, N. 
90 7th 
158 E. 11th 
Bank, f'm 85 
wich av, W. toN 
51 W. 4th 
81 Bleecker 

— Hudson 
— Greenwich 

131 Washington 
169 West 
Barclay, from 227 
B'way, W. to N. R. 
23 Church 
53 W. Broadway 
73 Greenwich 
87 Washington 
ig9 West 
Barrow, f'm 134 Wash- 
ington pi., to N. R. 
Batavia, fm 78 Roose- 
velt, E. to James 
Battery Pk,, foot of 

Broadway. 
Battery PI., from 1 
Broadway, W. to 
N. R. 

Baxter, f'm 166 Park 
Row, N. to Grand 
27 Park 
23 Worth 

— Leonard 

— Franklin 
71 Bayard 

— White 

— Walker 
99 Canal 

129 Hester 



Bayard, f'm 70 Divi- 
sion, W. to Baxter 

Beach, from 250 W. 
B'way, W. to N. R. 

Beaver, from 8 Broad- 
way, E. to Pearl, 

— New 
30 Broad 
54 William 
74 Hanover 

Bedford, from 180 W. 
Houston to Chris- 
topher 
Beekman, f'm 34 Park 
Row, E. to E. R. 
9 Nassau 
37 William 
61 Gold 
89 Cliff 
103 Pearl 
119 Water 
145 Front 
• — South 
Beekman PI., f'm 429 

E, 49th, N. to 51st 
Belvedere PL, W. 
30th, bet. 9th and 
10th avs. 
Bethune, from 591 
Hudson, W. to N.R. 
Birmingham, from 84 
Henry, S. to Madi- 
son 
Bleecker, from 318 
Bowery to 8th av. 

— Elizabeth 

— Mott 

— Mulberry 
51 Elm 

— Crosby 

73 Broadway 

89 Mercer 
105 Greene 
121 Wooster 
139 W. Broadway 
153 Thompson 
169 Sullivan 
187 Macdougal 
231 Carmine 
295 Barrow 
315 Grove 
327 Christopher 
347 W. 10th 
365 Charles 
383 Perry 
401 W» Utb 
<17 Rjujj^ 



Bond, f'm 658 Broad- 
way, E. to Bowery 
Boulevard Lafayette, 

f'm B'way, near W. 

156th, N. and W. to 

Dyckman 
Boulevard PI., W. 

130th, bet. 5th and 

Lenox av. 
Bowery, from 13 

Chatham sq., N. to 

4th av. 
29 Bayard 
61 Canal 
93 Hester 

127 Grand 

151 Broome 

181 Delancey 

Spring 

213 Rivington 

— Prince 
245 Stanton 

279 E. Houston 
303 1st 

— Bleecker 
323 2d 

— Bond 
345 3a 

— Great Jones 
361 E. 4th 

379 5th 
395 6th 

— 4th ave. 
Bowling Green, fron, 

Whitehall, W. to 

State. 
Bowling Green Pk., 

foot of Broadway 
Bradhurst av., from 

Edgecomb av. and 

W. 142d, N. to W. 

155th 
Bridge, from 15 State, 

E. to Broad 
Broad, f'm 21 Wall, S 

to East River 
28 Exchange PL 
68 Beaver 
72 Marketfield 

— S. William 
88 Stone 

98 Bridge 
100 Pearl 
108 Water 
122 Front 



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b*«jadway, from 1 Battery 
PL, N. to Spuyten Duyvil 
Creek 

— 8 Beaver 
27 — Morris 

55 — Exchang,"e alley 

— 56 Exchange PI. 
73 — Rector 

— 86 Wall 

— 106 Pine 
111 — Thames 
119 124 Cedar 
145 144 Liberty 
171 — Cortland 

— 172 Maiden Lane 

— 184 John 
191 — Dey 
207 210 Fulton 

— 222 Ann 

— — Vesey 
227 ^ Barclay 
237 ^^ Park PI. 

— t« ^iail 
247 ^C Murray 
259 U \\'arren 
271 274 Chambers 
287 288 Reade 
303 302 Duane 
317 - — Thomas 

— 318 Pearl 
333 334 Worth 

— 344 Catharine Lane 
347 348 Leonard 

363 362 Franklin 

379 378 \\'hite 

399 398 Walker 

413 — Lispenard 

417 416 Canal 

429 432 Howard 



Broadway. 

461 458 Grand 

487 486 Broome 

527 526 Spring 

567 566 Prince 

609 608 W. & E. Houstoa 

641 640 Bleecker 

— 658 Bond 
681 — W. 3d 

— 682 Great Jones 
697 694 W. and E. 4th 
713 — Washington PI. 
727 Waverley PI. 

— 744 Astor PI. 
755 754 E. 8th 
785 784 E. 10th 
819 824 E. 12th 
853 858 E. 14th 

Union Sq. E. 15th 
West E. 16th 
857 860 E. 17th 
871 872 E. 18th 
901 900 E. 20th 
957 958 E. 23d 

5th av. 

1099 W. 24th 

1119 W. 25th 

1139 1134 W. 26th 

1183 1172 W. 28th 

1227 1216 W. 30th 

1291 1280 W. 33d 

— 6th av 

1311 1300 W. 34th 

1391 1390 W. 38th 

1467 1470 W. 42d 

1&25 1530 W. 45th 

7th av. 

1549 1550 W. 46th 

1629 1630 W. 50th 

1729 1728 W. 55th 



1959 



2079 
2157 
2255 
2395 
2495 

2717 
2837 
2915 
3137 



3329 



Trin 
3741 



4341 



5147 
5189 



1810 VV. 59th 

■ 8th av. 

1820 W. 60th 
1936 W. 65th 

Columbus av, 

W. 66th 

W. 71st 

Amsterdam av 

Vv. 72d 

2158 W. 76th 

W. 81st 

2398 W. 88th 

W. 93d 

2574 W. 97th 

W. 104th 

2834 W. 110th 
2914 W. 114th 
3134 W. 125th 
3188 Manhattan 
3226 W. 130th 

W. 135th 

3478 W. 142d 
3674 W. 152d 

W. 153d 

ity Cemetery 

3740 W. 155th 
3936 W. 165th 
4054 W. 171st 
4234 W. 180th 

W. 185th 

Ft. Washingt'n a> 

4634 Sherman av. 

Dyckman 

Isham 

Harlem River 

W. 211th 

5160 W. 219th 

Isham 

Terrace Vievir av. 



Broome, f'm 15 East 
St., W. to Hudson 
50 Lewis 
82 Columbia 
178 Clinton 
242 Ludlow 
274 Allen 
336 Bowery 
388 Mulberry 
414 Elm 
442 Broadway 
452 Mercer 
466 Greene 
482 Wooster 
500 W. Broadway 
562 Varick 
590 Hudson 
8rvant Pk., bet. 5th 
& 6th avs., W. 40th 
& 42d 
Burling SI., from 2.34 
Pearl to East River 
Canal, from 182 East 
B'way, W. to N. R, 
23 Division 
71 Allen 
105 Forsyth 
145 Bowery 
201 Mulberry 
249 Elm 
283 Broadway 
311 Mercer 
331 Greene 

— Church 
355 Wooster 

S75 W. Broadway 
895 Thompson 

— Laight 
ttS SallivatJ 



429 ^'ar^ck 

Vestry 

485 Hudson 
487 Watts 
503 Renwick 
521 Greenwich 
541 Washington 
Pk. West 
Canal St. Pk., Canal, 

cor. West 
Cannon, fm 538 Grand 

N. to E. Houston 
Carlisle, fm 112 Green- 
wich, W. to N. R. 
Carmine, from 1 6th 
av. to Varick 
15 Bleecker 
49 Bedford 
81 Varick 
Caroline, from 211 
Duane, N. to Jay _ 
Catharine, f'm 1 Divi- 
sion, S. to Cherry 
Catharine Mkt., foot 
Catherine 

Catharine Slip, from 
115 Cherry, S. to E.R. 

Cathedral Parkway, 
W. 110th, from 5th 
av. to Riverside av. 

Cedar, f'm 181 Pearl, 
W. to North River. 
39 William 
— Nassau 
89 Broadway 
127 Greenwich 
143 Washington 
159 West 



Central Park, bet. 5th 

& 8th avs. and 59th 

& 110th Sts. 
Central Park S., 59th 

from 5th to 8th avs. 
Central Park, W., 8th 

av., f'm W. 59th to 

110th 

20 W. 62d 
99 W. 70th 

150 W 75th 
228 W. 83d 
278 W. 88th 
330 W. 93d 
379 W. 98th 
439 W. 104th 
477 W. 108th 
Centre, f'm City Hall 
Pk., N. to Broome 
12 Chambers 

68 Worth 
158 Canal 
224 Grand 

Centre Market, Grand 

cor. Centre 
Chambers, f'm 96 Park 

Row, W. to N. R. 

21 Centre 

69 Broadway 
99 Church 

131 W. Broadway 
139 Hudson 
171 Greenwich 
183 Washington 
205 West 
Charles, f'm 37 Green- 
wich av. W. to N. R. 
Charlton, f'm 28 Mac- 
dougal. W. to N. R 



Chatham Sq., from I 

Mott to Oliver 
Chelsea Sq., bet. 9th 
& 10th avs., 20th & 
21st 
Cherry, f'm 340 Pearl 

E. to East River 
Chestnut, f'm 8 Oak, 

N. to Madison 
Christopher, from 3 
Greenwich av. to 
North River 
31 Waverley PI, 
63 W. 4th 
91 Bleecker 
129 Hudson 
187 West 
Chrystie, f'm 44 Divi< 
sion to E. Houston 
Church, f'm 99 Lib- 
erty, N, to Canal 
17 Cortlandt 
107 Park PI. 
189 Duane 
261 Franklin 
333 Canal 
City Hall PI., from 16 
Chambers to Pearl 
City Hall Sq., bet 
Tryon Row and 
Spruce St. 
Claremont av., from 
W. 116th, between 
B'way & Riverside 
av., N. to W. 127tb 
Claremont PL, from 
Claremont av., N. 
of W. 122, W. Xf 
Riverside av. 



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Clarke, from 538 
Broome, N. to 
Spring 
Clarkson, from 225 
Varick, W. to N. R. 
Cliff, from 101 John, 
N.E. to Hague 
34 Fulton 
54 Beekman 
72 Ferry 
102 Frankfort 
Clinton, from 293 E. 
Houston, S.to E. R. 
71 Rivington 
163 Grand 
197 E. Broadway 
233 Monroe 
255 Water 
Coenties SI., from 66 

Pearl, S- to E. R. 
Collister, from 51 
Beach, N. to Laight 
Columbia, from 520 
Grand, N. to E. 
Houston 
Columbia PL, 386 E. 
8tb 

Lolu'iiibus St , iOWiiJ 
uation of 9th av., 
from W. 59th, N. to 
W. 127th 

— W. 64th 
97 Broadway 

139 \V. 66th 
257 W. 72d 
315 W. 75th 

— W. 81st 
515 W. 85th 
617 W. 90th 
677 W. 93d 
775 W. 98th 
893 W. 104th 
995 W. 109th 

1293 W. 124th 
Commerce, from 286 

Bleecker to Barrow 
Congress, f'm 177 W. 

Houston, S. to King 
Convent av., from 

Columbus av. and 

VV. 127th, N. to W. 

152d 

— W. 127th 

— W. 135th 

— W. 140th 

91 W. 145th 
189 W. 150th 

Convent Hill, W. 
130th, bet. St. 
Nicholas and Con- 
vent avs. 

Cooper, from Acad- 
emy, bet. B'way & 
Seaman av. tolsham 

Cooper Pk., junction 
of 3d and 4th avs. 

Corlears, from 587 
Grand, S. to E. R. 

Cornelia, f'm 158 W. 
4th, W. to Bleecker 

Cortlandt, from 171 
B'way, W. to N, R. 
26 Church 
50 Greenwich 
76 Washington 

92 West 

Cottage PL. Hancock 



Crosby, f'm 28 How- 
ard, N. to Bleecker 

23 Grand 
39 Broome 

71 Spring 
105 Prince 

143 E. Houston 
Delancey, from 181 

Bowery, E. to E. R. 
Depau PL, 185 & 187 

Thompson 
Depew PL, f'm E. 42d 

bet. Vanderbilt & 

Lexington avs., to 

E. 45th 
Depeyster, from 139 

Water, S. to E. R. 
Desbrosses, from 195 

Hudson, W. to N.R. 
De Witt Clinton Pk., 

bet. 11th av. and 

Hudson River, and 

52d and 54th sts. 
Dey, f'm 191 B'way, 

W. i:o North River 

24 Church 

58 Greenwich 

72 Washington 

iji vision, VtU 1 Bo<V^ 
ery, E. to Grand 

— Chrystie 

— Forsyth 

— Bayard 
61 Market 

— Eldridge 

— Allen 
107 Pike 

— Orchard 
143 Canal 

— Ludlow 

Wm. H. Seward Pk. 

— Norfolk 
179 Jefferson 

— Suffolk 

— Hester 
207 Clinton 

— Attorney 
247 Montgomery 

— Ridge 

— Pitt 

275 Gouverneur 
Dominick, from 13 
Clarke, W. to Hud- 
son 
Dover, f'm 340 Pearl, 

S. to East River 
Downing, from 216 
Bleecker, W. to 
Varick 
Doyers, f'm 13 Chat- 
ham Sq., to Pell 
Dry Dock, f'm 423 E. 
10th, N. to E. 12th 
Duane, from 40 Rose, 
W. to North River 
21 Park Row 
89 Broadway 
149 W. Broadway 
185 Greenwich 
217 West 
Duncomb PL, E. 
128th, bet. 2d and 
3d avs. 
Dunham PI., 142 W. 

33d 
Dunscomb PI.. E. 
50th, bet. 1st av. & 
Beekman Place, 



Dutch, from 49 John 

to Fulton 
Dyckman, from Har- 
lem River, S. of 
Academy, to N. R. 
East, from 750 Wa- 
ter, N. to Rivingt'n 
E. Broadway, f'm 19 
Chatham Square to 
Grand 
15 Catharine 
73 Market 
117 Pike 
163 Rutgers 

— Canal 
189 Jefferson 
219 Clinton 

259 Montgomery 
287 Gouverneur 

299 Scammel 

East End av., Av. B, 
f'm E. 79th to 89th 
1 E. 79th 
95 E. 84th 

East River Pk. 

— E. 89th 

E. Houston, f'm 608 
B'way, E. to E R. 
87 Bowery 

— 2d av. 

— 1st av. 

— Av. A 

— Av. B 
357 Pitt 

Hamilton Fish Pk. 

— Av C 
463 Lewis 
509 Mangin 

E. River Pk., bet. E. 
End av. & E. R., 
& E. 84th & E. 89th 
E. 4th, f'm 694 Broad- 
way, E. to E. R. 
20 Lafayette PI. 
44 Bowery 
82 2d av. 
130 1st av. 
180 Av. A 
242 Av. B 

300 Av. C 
S60 Av. D 
392 Lewis 

E. 8th, f'm 7 5th av., 
E. to East River 
42 University PI. 
44 Greene 
60 Mercer 
130 Broadway 
142 Lafayette PI. 

— 4th av. 

St. Mark's PI. 
Tompkins Sq. 
300 Av. B 
342 Av. C 

Columbia PI. 
408 Av. D 
426 Lewis 
E. 9th, from 21 5th 
av., E. to E. R. 
20 University PL 
68 Broadway 
92 4th av. 

— 3d av. 

— Stuyvesant 
238 2d av. 

348 1st av. 
442 Av. A 

Tompkins Sq. 
650 Av. C 
752 Av. D 



E. 10th, f'm 33 5th ar. 

E. to East River 
26 University PL 
56 Broadway 

— 4th avo 
98 3d av. 

128 Stuyvesant 
242 1st av. 
288 Av. A. 

Tompkin-3 Sq. 
Sq. Av. B 
394 Av. C 
448 Av. D 

E. 11th, from 41 5tb 
av., E. to E. R. 

34 University PL 

82 Broadway 
100 4th av. 
200 3d av 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
600 Av. B 
700 Av. C 
724 Dry Dock 

— Av. D 

E. 12th, f'm 51 6tb 
av., E. to E. R. 
28 University PL 
58 Broadway 
100 4th av. 

200 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
600 Av. B 
700 Av. C 

728 Dry Dock 
800 Av. D 
E. 13th, f'm 61 5th av., 
E. to East River, 
numbered like E» 
12th 
E. 14th, f'm 67 5th av., 
E. to East River 
— Union Sq., W. 
36 University PL 
50 Broadway 
100 4th av. 

— Irving PL 

201 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
600 Av. B 

— Av. C 

E. 15th, f'm 71 5th av., 
E. to East River 
22 Union Sq., W. 
114 Irving PL 
200 3d av. 

— Rutherford PL 
300 2d av. 

— Livingston PL 
400 1st av. 

500 Av. A 
600 Av. B 
700 Av. C 
E. 16th, f'm 81 5th av., 
E. to East River, 
numbered like E.15th 
E. 17th, f'm 93 5th av., 
E. to East River, 
numbered like E.15th 
E. 18th, from 107 5th 
av., E. to E. R.. 

28 Broadway 
100 4th av. 
118 Irving PI 
200 3d av 



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SOO 2d av. 

400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
600 Av. B 
700 Av. C 
E. 19th, from 117 5th 
av., E. to E. R., 
numbered like E.lSth 
E. 20th, from 133 5th 
av., E. to East River 

8 Broadway 
100 4th av. 

— Gramercy Pk. 
124 Irving PI. 
200 3d av. 

300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
E. 21st, from 147 5th 
av., E. to E. R., 
numbered like E.20th 
E. 22d, from 165 5th 
av., E. to East River 

— Broadway 
100 4th av, 

128 Lexingfton av. 
200 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. . 
500 Av. A 
E. 23d, from 185 5th 
av., E. to East River 
2 Broadway 

— Madison av. 
100 4th av. 

200 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
E. 24th, from 11 
Madison av., E. to 
East River 
100 4th av. 
134 Lexington av. 
200 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
500 Av. A 
E. 25th, from 21 Mad- 
ison av., E. to E. R. 
38 Madison av. 
100 4th av. 
132 Lexington av. 
200 3d av. 
300 2d av. 
400 1st av. 
E. 26th, f'm 215 5th 
av., E. to East River 

— 5th av. 
Madison Sq. N. 
Sq. Madison av. 
100 4th av. 

128 Lexington av. 

200 3d av. 

300 2d av. 

400 1st av. 

500 Av. A 
All numbered East 
Side streets f'm 26th 
to Harlem River 
commence at 5th av. 
and run E. to E.R., 
and are numbered 
similar to 26th st., 
a hundred numbers 
being on each block 
between the num- 
bered avenues. 
Edgar, f'm 59 Green- 
wich, to Trinity PL 



Edgecomb av., from 


Emerson, from Am- 


June. St. Nicholas 


sterdam av., opp. 


av. and W. 136th to 


W. 207th, to Pres- 


155th 


cott av. 


46 W. 137th 


Essex, from 160 Divi- 


116 W. 140th 


sion, N. to E. Hous- 


230 W. 145th 


ton 


- W. 155th 


Essex Mkt. PI., f'm 


Edgecomb Rd., from 


68 Ludlow, to Essex 


W. 155th and St 


Exchange Al., f'm 55 


Nicholas av., to 


B'way, to Trinity 


Amsterdam av.. 


Place. 


Eighth av., from 598 


Exchange Ct., 74 Ex- 


Hudson, N. to Har- 


change Place 


lem River. 


Exchange PL, f'm 6 


2 Abingdon Sq. 


Hanover to B'way 


20 W. 12th 


Extra PL, rear of 10 


— W. 4th 


1st St. 


60 Horatio 


Farmer's Mkt., Wash- 


Jackson Sq. 


ington, cor. Ganse- 


— W. 13th 


voort 


— Greenwich av. 


Ferry, from 88 Gold 


78 W. 14th 


to Pearl 


160 W. 18th 


Fifth, f'm 379 Bowery, 


254 W. 23d 


E. to East River 


356 W. 28th 


200 Bowery 


474 W. 34th 


246 2d av. 


568 W. 38th 


— Av. A. 


678 W. 42d 


752 Av. D. 


718 W. 45th 


Pifth Avenue 


828 W. 50th 


Fifth av., from 12 


888 W. 53d 


Washington Sq. to 


988 W. 58th 


Harlem River 


Central Park West 


— E. 8th 


2050 W. 11th 


21 E. 9th 


2144 W. U6th 


33 E. 10th 


2224 W. 120th 


67 E. 14th 


2236 St. Nicholas av. 


107 E. 18th 


2330 W. 125th 


133 E. 20th 


2428 W. 130th 


185 E. 23d 


2534 W. 135th 


— Broadway 


W. 140th 


249 E. 28th 


W. 145th 


281 E. 30th 


W. 150th 


315 E. 32d 


2910 W. 153d 


353 E. 34th 


Eldridge, f'm 86 Divi- 


387 E. 36th 


sion, to E. Houston 


421 E. 38th 


Eleventh av., f'm W. 


457 E. 40th 


14th, N. to Naegleav. 


499 E. 42d 


80 W. 18th 


545 E. 45th 


180 W. 23d 


623 E. 50th 


280 W. 28th 


703 E. 55th 


394 W. 34th 


751 E. 58th 


552 W. 42d 


775 E. 59th 


700 W. 50th 


787 E. 60th 


794 W. 55th 


837 E. 65th 


852 W. 59th 


884 E. 70th 


West End av. 


939 E. 75th 


— W. 173d 


989 E. 80th 


— W. 180th 


1038 E. 85th 


— W. 190th 


1089 E. 90th 


— Audubon av. 


1139 E. 95th 


— F. George av. 


1189 E. 100th 


— Naegle av. 


1239 E. 105th 


Elizabeth, from 52 


1289 E. 110th 


Bayard, N. to 


1335 E. 112th 


Bleecker 


1415 E. 116th 


30 Canal 


1475 E. 119th 


100 Grand 


E. 120th - 


216 Prince 


Mt. Morris Park. 


270 E. Houston 


2001 E. 124th 


Elm, f'r^ 14 Reade, 


2021 E. 125th 


N. to 


2119 E. 130th 


15 Duane 


2217 E. 135th 


31 Pearl 


2321 E. 140th 




E. 142d 




Harlem River 


Elwood, f'm Hillside 


First, f'm 303 Bowery, 


av.. bet. B'way & 
11th av., to Sher- 


E. to Av. A 


27 2d av. 


man av. 


73 St pv 



First av., f'm 166 E 
Houston to Harlem 
River 
10 1st 
116 7th 
232 E. 14th 
304 E. 18th 
392 E. 23d 

— E. 28th 

— E. 34th 
738 E. 42d 

E. 50th 

1000 E. 55th 
1100 E. 60th 
1200 E. 65th 
1300 E. 70th 
1442 E. 75th 
1528 E. 80th 
1634 E. 85th 
1734 E. 90th 

E. 95th 

1934 E. 100th 
2034 E. 105th 

E. 110th 

Thos. Jefferson Pk, 
2236 E. 115th 

2336 E. 120th 
2434 E. 125th 
Fletcher, from 208 
Pearl, S. to E. R. 
Forsyth, f'm 68 Divi- 
sion to E. Houston 
90 Grand 
188 Stanton 
Ft. George av., from 
Amsterdam av. and 
W. 190th, W. to 
11th av. 
Ft. Washington av., 
f'm B'way and W. 
159th, N. to B'way. 
Fourth av., continu- 
ation of Bowery to 
E. 34th 
39 Astor PL 
59 E. 9th 
157 E. 14th 
Union Square 
247 E. 20th 
289 E. 23d 
401 E. 28th 
477 E. 32d 
Frankfort, from 170 
Nassau, E. to Pearl 
17 William 
43 Gold 
75 Cliff 
Franklin f'm 64 Bax- 
ter, W. to N. R. 
38 Elm 
64 Broadway 
94 Church 
124 W. Broadway. 
166 Hudson 
194 Greenwich 

198 Washington 
218 West 

Franklin PL, from 68 
Franklin to White 

Franklin Sq., from 10 
Cherry to Pearl 

Front, f'm 49 White- 
hall to Roosevelt, 
and from South cor. 
Montgomery to East 
River 
5 Moore 
21 Broad 
lis Wall 
151 Maiden Lane 

199 Fulton 



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291 Roosevelt 
301 Montgomery 
317 Gouverneur si. 
371 Jackson 
Fulton, f'm 93 South, 
W. to North River 
Market Front 

25 Water 

37 Pearl 

53 Cliff 

79 Gold 

99 William 

— Dutch 
123 Nassau 
165 Broadway 
187 Church 
225 Greenwich 
239 Washington 

West 
Gansevoort, from 356 
W. 4th, N. to N. R. 
Gay, f'm 141 Waver- 
ley PI. to Christo- 
pher 
Goerck, f'm 574 Grand 

N. to 3d 
Gold, from 87 Maiden 
Lane to Frankfort 
12 Piatt 
24 John 
50 Fulton 

— Ann 

64 Beekman 

— Spruce 
Gouverneur, from 275 

Division, S. to Wa- 
ter 
Gouverneur SI., from 
371 South, N. to 
Water 
Gramercy Pk., f'm E. 
20th to E. 2ist, bet. 
3d and 4th avs. 
Grand, f'm 78 Varick, 
E. to East River 

17 Sullivan 

33 Thompson 
49 W. Broadway 
71 Wooster 
87 Greene 

105 Mercer 

119 Broadway 

131 Crosby 

151 Elm 

163 Centre 

Centre Market 

171 Baxter 

189 Mulberry 

203 Mott 

219 Elizabeth 

235 Bowery 

253 Chrystie 

269 Forsyth 

289 Eldridge 

307 Allen 

321 Orchard 

339 Ludlow 

355 Essex 

373 Norfolk 

389 Suffolk 

407 Clinton 

423 Attorney 

441 Ridge 

459 Pitt 

471 Division 

473 E. Broadway 

— Willett 

— Sheriff , 

— Columbia 
627 Henry 

Cannon 



541 Jackson 

— Lewis 
567 Madison 

— Goerck 
589 Corlears 

— Mangin 
599 Monroe 

— Tompkins 
625 East 

Grand Circle, 8th av., 
bet. W. 58th & W. 
60th 
Great Jones, f'm 682 

B'way, to Bowery 
Greeley Sq., between 
Broadway and 6th 
av., 32d and 34th 
Greene, from 331 
Canal, N. to E. 8th 

36 Grand 

54 Broome 

84 Spring 

120 Prince 

146 W. Houston 

182 Bleecker 

214 W. 3d 

224 W. 4th 

246 Washington PI. 

260 E. 8th 
Greenwich, from 4 
Battery PI., to 
Gansevoort 
89 Rector 

139 Cedar 

149 Liberty 

169 Cortlandt 

185. Dey 

197 Fulton 

213 Vesey 

229 Barclay 

249 Park PI. 

267 Murray 

283 Warren 

301 Chambers 

369 Franklin 

477 Canal 

583 W. Houston 

677 Christopher 

695 W. 10th 

795 W. 12th 

819 Horatio 
Greenwich av., from 

105 6th av. to 8th 

av. 

— Christopher 
Jefferson Market 

16 W. 10th 

— Charles 

— Perry 
72 W. 11th 
74 7th av. 

— Bank 
88 W. 12th 

— Jane 
118 W. 13th 
— Horatio 

Grove, from 488 Hud- 
son to Waverley pi. 
18 Bedford 
48 Bleecker 
76 W. 4th 
Hague, f'm 367 Pearl 

W. to Cliff 
Hamilton, from 73 
Catharine, E. to 
Market 
Hamilton Fish Pk., 
bet. Stanton, E. 
Houston, Pitt and 
Sheriff 



Hamilton PI., from 
Broadway c. 137th 
to Amsterdam and 
144th 
Hamilton Ter., from 
W. 141st, n. Con- 
vent av., N. to W. 
144th 
Hancock, f'm 176 W. 
Houston, North to 
Bleecker 
Hancock PI., Manhat- 
tan, from St. Nich- 
olas av. to Colum- 
bus av. 
Hancock Sq., bet. St. 
Nicholas and Man- 
hattan avs. and W. 
123d 
Hanover, f'm 57 Wall 

S. to Pearl 
Hanover Sq., from 105 

Pearl to Stone 
Hanson PI., 2d av , 
bet. E. 124th and 
125th 
Harlem River Drive- 
way, f'm W. 155th 
and Edgecomb Rd., 
N. to Dyckman 
Harrison, f'm 81 Hud- 
son, W. to N. R. 
Harry Howard Sq., 
bet. Canal, WalVer, 
Baxter & Mulberry 
Henry, f'm 14 Oliver, 

£. to Grand 
Herald Sq., between- 
B'way, 6th av., vy. 
34th and 361 h 
Hester, from 216 Div- 
ision, W. to Centre 
Hillside av., from 
Broadway and Nae- 
gle av to 11th av. 
Horatio,f'm 129 Green- 
wich, W. to N. R. 
Howard, f'm 201 Cen- 
tre, W. to Mercer 
10 Elm 
28 Crosby 
42 Broadway 
Hubert, f'm 149 Hud- 
son, W. to N. R. 
Hudson, from 139 
Chambers, N. to 
9th av. 
16 Reade 
28 Duane 
100 Franklin 
206 Canal 
384 W. Houston 
402 Clarkson 
500 Christopher 
598 8th av. 

Abingdon Sq. 
684 W. 14th 
Irving PL, f'm 117 E. 
14th, N. to E. 20th 
14 E. 15th 
30 E. 16th 
50 E. 17th 
64 E. 18th 
78 E. 19th 
Jackson, from 338 
Henry, S. to E. R. 
Jackson Sq., 8th av., 
bet. Horatio and 
Greenwich av. 
Jacob, from 19 Ferry 
to Frankfort 



James, from 215 Park 

Row, S. to James SL 
James' Slip, from 77 

Cherry, S. to E. R. 
Jane, from 113 Green- 
wich av. to N. R. 
Jay, from 61 Hudson, 

W. to North River 
Jeannette Pk., Coen- 

ties SI., bet. Front 

and South 
Jefferson, from 179 

Division, S. to E.R. 
Jefferson Market, 6th 

av., cor Greenwich 

av. 
Jersey, f'm 127 Crosby 

E. to Mulberry 
John, f'm 184 B'way, 

E. to Pearl 
30 Nassau 

— Dutch 
68 William 
88 Gold 

— Cliff 
120 Pearl 

Jones, f'm 174 W. 4th, 
W. to Bleecker 

King, from 41 Mac- 
dougal, W. to N.R. 

Kingsbridge av., f'm 
Terrace View av. to 
Spuyten Duyvil Ck. 

Kingsbridge Rd., f'm 
Amsterdam av. & 
W. 162d, N. to W, 
170th 

Lafayette St. from 
Worth N. to 8th St 

Laight, from 398 Ca- 
nal, W. to N. R. 

Lenox av., f'm 110th 
N. to Harlem River 

16 W. 111th 

120 W. 116th 
128 W. 120th 
298 W. 125th 
398 W. 130th 
494 W. 135th 
598 W. 140th 
698 W. 145th 
778 W. 149th 

Leonard, f'm 92 Hud 
son, E. to Baxter 
36 W. Broadway 
64 Church 
98 Broadway 
118 Elm 
140 Centre 
Leroy, f'm 248 Bleeck 

er, W. to N. K. 
Lewis, f'n 556 Grand, 

N. to E. 8th 
Lexington av., from 

121 E. 21st, N. to 
Harlem River 

17 E. 23d 
115 E. 28th 
237 E. 34th 
389 E. 42d 
449 E. 45th 
555 E. 50th 
655 E. 55th 
763 E. 60th 
863 E. 65th 
961 E. 70th 

1055 E. 75th 
1159 E. 80th 
1259 E. 85th 
1359 E. 90th 



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1469 E. 90th 
1565 E. 100th 
1673 E. 105th 
1773 E. 110th 
1857 E. 115th 

E. 120th 

2063 E. 125th 

■ E. 130th 

Uberty f'm 76 Maiden 
Lane, W. to N. R. 

13 William 

51 Nassau 

57 Liberty PI. 

75 Broadway 

97 Church 
123 Greenwich 
137 Washington 
147 West 

Liberty PI., from 57 

Liberty to Maiden 

Lane 
Lispenard, f'm 151 W. 

B'way to B'way 
Little W. 12th, from 

Gansevoort to N.R. 
Livingston PI., from 

325 E, 15th to E. 17th 
London Ten, W. 23d, 

bet. 9th & 10th avs. 
Long Acre Sq., bet. 

B'way, 7th av, & W. 

43d 
Ludlow, f'm 144 Divi- 
sion, N. to E. 

Houston 
Macdougal, from 219 

Spring, N. to W. 8th. 
70 W. Houston. 

98 Bleecker 
154 W. 4th 

Washington Sq. 

— W. Sth 

Macdougal Alley, f'm 

Macdougal.n 8th, E. 

Madison, from 426 

Pearl, E. to Grand 

72 Catharine 
224 Jeflferson 
384 Jackson 

Madison av., from 29 
E. 23d, N. to Har- 
lem River 
61 E. 27th 

117 E. 30th 

183 E. 34th 

245 E. 38th 

315 E. 42d 

351 E. 45th 

439 E. 50th 

549 E. 55th 

651 E. 60th 

751 E. 65th 

841 E. 70th 

953 E. 75th 
1047 E. 80th 
1141 E. 85th 
1245 E. 90th 
1351 E. 95th 
1449 E. 100th 
1553 E. 105th 
1647 E. 110th 
1747 E. 115th 
184r E. 120th 
Mt. Morris Park 
1943 E. 125th 
,2049 E. 130th 
2149 E. 135th 

Madison Sq., bet. 5th 
and Madison avs., 
E. 23d and E, 26th 



Madison Sq. N., E. 
26th, bet. 5th and 
Madison avs. 
Maiden Lane, from 
172 B'way to E. R. 
26 Nassau 
62 William 
76 Liberty 
106 Pearl 
134 Water 
144 Front 
168 South 
Mail, from Broadway, 
opp. Park PI., E. to 
Park Row 
Mangin, from 590 
Grand, N. to E. 
Houston 
Manhattan, from 444 
E. Houston, N. to 3d. 
Manhattan av., from 
W. 100th, bet. Cen- 
tral Park, N. and 
Columbus av., N. to 
St. Nicholas av. 
Marion, from 404 

Broome, N. 
Market, f'm 61 Divi- 
sion, S. to E. R. 
Marketfield, from 72 

Broad, W. 
Mercer, f'm 311 Canal, 
N. to E. 8th 
14 Howard 
34 Grand 
64 Broome 
100 Spring 
138 Prince 
170 W. Houston 
210 Bleecker 
246 W. 3d 
260 W. 4th 
274 Washington PI. 
Milligan Pl.,139 6th av 
Minetta, from 209 
Bleecker to Minetta 
Lane 
Minetta La. from 113 
Macdougal to 6th 
av. 
Mission PI., from 58 
Park, N. to Worth 
Mitchell PI., E. 49th, 
1st av. to Beekman 
Place. 
Monroe, f'm 59 Cath- 
arine, E. to Grand 
Montgomery, f'm 247 
Division, S. to E.R. 
Moore, f'm 30 Pearl, 

S. to East River 
Morningside av., E., 
from W. 110th, opp. 
Manhattan av., N. 
to W. 123d 

— W. 110th 

— W. 112th 
10 W. 115th 
17 W. 116th 
29 W. 117th 
39 W. 118th 
60 W. 120th 
78 W. 122d 

Morningside av. W., 

from W. 110th, W. 

of Columbus av. to 

122d 
Morningside Pk., bet. 

Morningside av., E. 

& W. and W. 110th 

and W. 123d 



Morris, f'm 27 B'way 
W. to North River 
Morton, from 270 
Bleecker, W. to N. 
R. 
Mott, from 200 Park 
Row, N. to Bleecker 

82 Canal 
144 Grand 
206 Spring 
292 E. Houston 
Mt. Morris Pk. W., 
from W. 130th, bet. 
5th and Lenox avs., 
to W. 124th 
1 W. 120th 
10 W. 121st 
18 W. 122d 
30 W. 123d 
38 W. 124th 
Mulberry from 186 
Park R'w to Bleeck- 

8 Worth 
88 Canal 
150 Grand 
254 Prince 
292 E. Houston 
Murray, from 247 
B'way, W. to N. R. 
29 Church 
61 W. Broadway 
87 Greenwich 
95 Washington 
111 West 
Nassau, f'm 20 Wall, 
N, to Park Row 

— Pine 
26 Cedar 
38 Liberty 

54 Maiden Lane 
70 John 
90 Fulton 
102 Ann 
136 Beekman 
152 Spruce 
170 Frankfort 
New, from 7 Wall, S. 

to Beaver 
New Bowery, f'm 396 
Pearl, N, to Park 
Row 
New Chambers, from 
107 Park Row, E. to 
Cherry 
12 William 

— Pearl 
36 Rose 

52 New Bowery 

— Roosevelt 
S2 Cherry 

Ninth av., f'm Ganse- 
voort. N. to W. 59th 

— W. 14th 
122 W. 18th 
206 W. 23d 
350 W. 30th 

— W. 34th 
580 W. 42d 
740 W. 50th 
840 W. 55th 
924 \y. 59th 

Norfolk, f'm 180 Divi- 
sion, North to E. 
Houston 

North Moore, f'm 234 
W. Broadwy, W. to 
North River 

North William, from 
16 Frankfort to Park 
Row 



Oak, f'm 392 Pearl, E. 

to Catharine. 
Old SI., f'm 106 Pearl, 

S. to East River 

Oliver, f'm 63 New 

Bowery, S. to E. R. 

Orchard, f'm 124 Divi- 

sion, N. to Eo 

Houston 

Park, from 36 Centre, 

E. to Mott 
Park av., continuation 
of 4th av. from E. 
34th, N. to H. R. 
65 E. 38th 
135 E. 42d 
375 E. 53d 
497 E. 59th 
607 E. 65th 
717 E. 70th 
819 E. 75th 
911 E. 80th 
1015 E. 85th 
1115 E. 90th 
1217 E. 95th 

E. 100th 

1407 E. 105th 
1507 E. 110th 
1635 E. n6th 
1711 E. 120th 
1817 E. 125th 
1915 E. 130th 

E. 133d 

Park PI., from 237 
Broadway, W. to 
North River 
27 Church 
57 W. Broadway 
71 Greenwich 
91 Washington 
107 West 
Park Row, f'm 1 Ann, 
E. to Chatham Sq. 
34 Beekman 
41 Spruce 
— Mail 
53 Frankfort 
89 N. William 

— Chambers 

107 New Chambers 
109 Duane 
163 Pearl 

— Baxter 
187 Roosevelt 
■ — ■ Mulberry 
215 James 

— Worth 

— IMott 

231 New Bowery 
Pearl, f'm 14 State, E. 
and N. to B'way 
24 Whitehall 
52 Broad 

— William 
152 Wall 

194 Maiden Lane 
266 Fulton 
286 Beekman 
348 Franklin Sq. 
396 New Bowery 

— \^andewater 

— W^illiam 
464 Park Row 
512 Centre 

536 Elm 
554 Broadway 
Peck Slip, from 312 

Pearl. E; to South 
Pelham, f'm 96 Mon- 
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Pell, f'm 18 Bowery, 
W. to Mott 

Perry, from 55 Green- 
wich av., W. to N.R. 

Pike, from 107 Divi- 
sion, S. to E. R. 

Pine, f'm 106 B'way, 
E. to East River 

13 Nassau 
45 William 
79 Pearl 

85 Water 
91 Front 
99 South 

Pitt, f'm 276 Division 

N. to E. Houston 
Piatt, f'm 221 Pearl, 

W. to William 
Pleasant av., f'm E. 
100th, E. of 1st av., 
N. to Harlem River 
182 E. 110th 
298 E. 116th 
376 E. 120th 

— E. 124th 
Prince, f'm 230 Bow- 
ery, W. to Macdou- 
gal 

15 Elizabeth 
59 Elm 
79 Broadway 
145 W. Broadway. 
180 Sullivan 
Reade, f'm 22 Duane, 
W. to North River 

14 Elm 

42 Broadway 
112 W. Broadway 
194 West 
Rector, f'm 73 Broad- 
way, W. to N. R. 
Renwick, from oOS 
Canal. N. to Spring 
Ridge, from 254 Divi 
sion, N +o E. Hous- 
ton 
Riverside « from 
W. 72d, .-■:. West 
End av -iud 12th 
iv.,N. tc L\/[anhattan. 
26 W. '5th 
39 W. 76th 
49 W, 77th 
74 W. 79th 
78 W. 80th 

86 W. 81st 
95 W. 82d 

109 W. 83d 
129 W. 85th 
147 W. 87th 
162 W. 88th 
185 W. 91st 
280 W. 100th 
318 W. 104th 
354 W. 108th 

— W. 110th 

— W. 116th 

— W. 122d 

— W. 129th 
Riverside Pk., bet. 

Riverside av., Hud- 
son River, W. 72d 
and 129th 
Rivington, from 213 
Bowery, E. to E.R. 
67 Allen 

161 Clinton 

267 Columbia 

321 Goerck 

371 East 



Roosevelt, from 187 
Park Row, S. to 
East River 
59 New Chambers 
117 Water 
137 South 
Rose, from 34 Frank- 
fort, E. to Pearl 
Rutgers, f'm 26 Canal, 

S. to East River 
Rutherford PI., from 
224 E. 17th, S. to 
15th 
St. Clement's PI., 
Macdougal, from W. 
Houston to Bleeck- 
er, and Waverley 
PI. to 8th 
St. Mark's PI., E. 
8th, from 3d av. to 
Av. A 
St. Nicholas av., f'm 
Lenox av. and W. 
110th to Amsterdam 
av. and W. 161st 
20 Lenox 
54 W. 113th 
110 W. 116th 
218 W. 121st 
222 8th av. 
258 W. 123d 
276 W. 124th 
336 W. 127th 
400 W. 130th 
490 W. 135th 
694 W. 145th 
796 "W. 150th 
900 W. 155th 
970 W. 159th 
St. Nicholas PI., f'm 
St. Nicholas av. & 
W. 149th, N. to W. 
155th 
St. Nicholas Ten, f'm 
W. 127th and St. 
Nicholas av., to 140th 
Scammel, f'm 299 E. 
B'way, S. to Water 
Second, f'm. 323 Bow- 
ery, E. to Av. D 

35 2d av. 
145 Av. A 
257 Av. C 

Second av., f'm 118 E. 
Houston, N. to Har- 
lem River 

116 7th 

228 E. 14th 

398 E. 23d 

498 E. 28th 

620 E. 34th 

782 E. 42d 

934 E. 50th 
1138 E. 60th 
1326 E. 70th 
1536 E. 80th 
1730 E. 90th 

E. 100th 

2136 E. 110th 
2238 E. 115th 
2338 E. 120th 
2438 E. 125th 
2498 E. 128th 
Seventh, from opp. 
20 4th av., E. to E. 
R. 

36 2d av. 
130 Av. A 
228 Av. C 
300 Lewis 



Seventh av., from 74 

Greenwich av., N. 

to Central Park, & 

from W. 110th, N. 

to Harlem River 

53 W. 14th 

133 W. 18th 

219 W. 23d 

315 W. 28th 

439 W. 34th 

599 W. 42d 

759 W. 50th 

861 W. 55th 

941 Central "tk. S. 
Central Park 
1801 W. 110th 
1893 W. 115th 

St. Nicholas av, 

1921 W. 116th 
1999 W. 120th 
2039 W. 122d 
2089 W. 125th 
2161 W. 128th 
2197 W. 130th 
2299 W. 135th 
2339 W. 137th 
2413 W. 141st 

W. 144th 

■ • W. 149th 

W. 155th ' 

Harlem River 
Sheriff, from 502 

Grand, N. to 2d 
Sherman av., from 
B'way and Elwood, 
N. to Amsterdam 
av., and W. 211th 
Sherman Sq., bet. 
B'way, Amsterdam 
av. and W. 73d 
Sixth, f'm 395 Bowery 

E. to East River 
Sixth av., from Car- 
mine, N. to Central 
Park 
36 W. 4th _ 

— Greenwich av. 
130 W. 10th 

208 W. 14th 
228 W. 15th 
. 248 W. 16th 
266 W. 17th 
286 W. 18th 
298 W. 19th 
— W. 20th 
338 W. 21st 
356 W. 22d 
374 W. 23d 
412 W. 25th 
462 W. 28th 
536 W. 32d 

Broadway 
612 W. 36th 
Sq. W. 42d 
792 W. 45th 
886 W. 50th 
976 W. 55th 
1052 Central Pk, S. 
South, f'm 66 White- 
hall, E. to E. R. 

14 Broad 

58 Wall 

75 Maiden Lane 

93 Fulton 

— Beekman 
175 Roosevelt 
187 James Slip 
221 Market 

286 Clinton 
386 Jackson 



Corlears Hook Pk. 

East River 
South William, front 

7 William to Broad 
Speedway (see Har 

lem River Drive 

way). 
Spring, f'm 188 Bow 

ery, W. to N. R. 
11 Elizabeth 

45 Mulberry 
— Elm 

89 Broadway 
121 Greene 
157 W. Broadwaj 
197 Sullivan 
259 Varick 
291 Hudson 
317 Greenwich 
353 West 
Spruce, from 41 Park 

Row, E. to Gold 

Stanton, f'm 245 BoW' 

ery, E. to E. R. 

73 Allen 
133 Norfolk 
221 Pitt 

Hamilton Fish Prk 
271 Columbia 
351 Tompkins 
State, from 48 Whit* 
hall to Broadway 
1 Whitehall 
18 Pearl 
23 Bridge 
30 Bowling Grees 
Stone, f'm 13 White 

hall to William 
Stuyvesant, f'm 29 3c 
av., E. to 2d av. 
14 E. 9th 

46 E. 10th 
Stuyvesant Sq., bete 

Rutherford PI. an<f 
Livingston PI., E 
15th and E. 17th 

Suffolk, f'm 202 Divi- 
sion to E. Houston 

Sullivan, from 411 
Canal, N. to W. 3d 
21 Grand 

55 Broome 

165 W. Houston 
205 Bleecker 
Temple, from 88 Lib 
erty, S. to Thames 
Tenth av., from 5^ 
West, N. to W. 59tki 

56 W. 14th 
220 W. 23d 
312 W. 28th 
574 W. 42d 
634 W. 45th 
828 W. 55th 
888 W. 58th 

Thames, from 111 
B'way to Greenwich 
Third, f'm 345 Bow= 
ery, E. to E. R. 

38 2d av. 
142 Av. A 
326 Av. D 
394 Goerck 
Third av., continua* 
tion of Bowery, N.. 
to Harlem River 
45 E. 10th 
123 E. 14th 
203 E. 18th 
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891 E. 28th 
429 E. 30th 
505 E. 34th 
657 E. 42d 
773 E. 48th 
875 E. 53d 
989 E. 59th 
1047 E. 62d 

E. 67th 

1201 E. 70th 
1309 E. 75th 
1409 E. 80th 
1505 E. 85th 
1599 E. 90th 
1693 E. 95th 
1799 E. 100th 
1923 E. 106th 
2001 E. 110th 
2133 E. 116th 
2199 E. 120th 
2297 E. 125th 
E. 130th 

Harlem River 

Thirteenth av., from 

148 Gansevoort, N. 
to W. 30th 
Thomas, from 317 
B'way, W. to Hud- 
son 

» 41 Church 
' 73 W. Broadway. 
Thompson, from 395 
Canal, N. to W. 4th 
20 Grand 
82 Spring 
160 W. Houston 
204 Bleecker 

Tompkins, from 606 
Grand, N. to E. R. 

Tompkins Sq., bei 
Avs. A and B, E. 
7th and E. 10th 
Trinity PI., from 6 
Morris. N. to Lib- 
erty 
Tryon Row, from 1 
Centre, E. to Park 
Row 
Twelfth av., from foot 
W ?,Oth, N. to W. 
151st _ 

Union Square, bet. 
B'way, 4th av., E. 
14th and E. 17th 
Union Square E., 4th 
av. from E. 14th to 
E. 17th 
Union Square W., 
B'way, from E. 14th 
to E. 17th 
University PI., from 
29 W'averley PI. to 
E. 14th 

Vandam, f'm 13 Mac- 
dougal to Green- 
wich 

Vanderbilt av., from 
27 E. 42d to E. 45th 

Vandewater, from 54 
Frankfort, E. to 
Pearl 

Varick, f'm 130 Frank- 
lin, N. to Carmine 
70 Canal 
108 Broome 
204 W. Houston 
230 Carmine 



Vesey, from B'way, 
opp. 222, W. to N.R. 
30 Church 
66 W. Broadway 
70 Greenwich 
86 Washington 
110 West 
Vestry, f'm 428 Canal, 
W. to North River 
26 Hudson 

56 Washington 
Walker, from 135 W. 

B'way, E. to Canal 
29 Church 
69 Broadway 
93 Elm 
109 Centre 
Wall, from 86 B'way, 
E. to East River 
7 New 

Nassau 

21 Broad 
51 William 

57 Hanover Sq. 
75 Pearl 

89 Water 
103 Front 
119 South 
Warren, from 259 
B'way, W. to N. R. 
32 Church 
62 W, Broadway 

96 Greenwich 
106 Washington 

Washington, from 6 
Battery PI., to W 
14th 

97 Rector 
145 Cedar 
153 Liberty 

169 Cortlandt 

179 Dey 

191 Fulton 

205 Vesey 

221 Barclay 

239 Park PI. 

255 Murray 

271 Warren 

2^ Chambers 

347 Franklin 

475 Canal 

565 W. Houston 
647 Christopher 
655 W. 10th 
765 W. 12th 
815 Gansevoort 
Washington PL, from 

713 Broadway, W. 

to Grove 

21 Greene 

35 Wash'ton Sq., E. 

61 Macdougal 

89 6th av. 

— Barrow 
Washington Sq., bet. 

Wooster, Macdou- 
gal, W. 4th and 

Waverley PI. 
Washington Sq. E., 

from 43 W. 4th to 

Waverley PI. 
Washington Sq. N., 

f'm 29 to 89 Wav- 
erley PI. 
Washington Sq. S., 

from 54 to 126 W. 

4th 
Washington Sq. W., 

f'm 143 to 165 Mac- 
dougal 



Water, f'm 41 White- 
hall, E. to E. R. 
21 Brq^d 

113 Wall 

199 Fulton 

321 Roosevelt 

389 Catharine SI. 

469 Pike 

565 Clinton 

685 Jackson 
— East 
Watts, f'm 44 Sulli- 
van, W. to N. R. 
Waverley PI., from 
727 B'way, to Bank 

23 Greene 

— Wash'ton Sq. E. 

57 5th av. 
123 6th av. 

183 W. 10th 

231 W. 11th 
West, f'm 12 Battery 
PL, N. to 10th av. 
56 Rector 

102 Liberty 

130 Fulton 
Mkt. Vesey 

147 Barclay 

185 Chambers 

215 Franklin 

271 Desbrosses 

293 Canal 
Mkt. Spring 

321 Charlton 

342 W. Houston 

3S7 Christopher 

425 W. 11th 

485 W. 12th 

533 Gansevoort 

542 10th av. 

West Broadway, from 
66 Vesey, N. to W. 
4th 
35 Park PI. 
75 Warren 
93 Chambers 
163 Worth 
205 Franklin 
297 Canal 
331 Grand 
363 Broome 



11th 
59th 



439 Prmce 

519 Bleecker 

563 W. 3d 

West End Av., 

av. from W. 

to W. 107th 

54 W. 62d 

154 W. 67th 

256 W. 72d 

318 W. 75th 

378 W. 78th 

436 W. 81st 

516 W. 85th 

598 W. 89th 

678 W. 93d 

758 \Y. 97th 

822 W. 100th 

898 W. 104th 

— W. 106th 

— Broadway 

— W 107th 

W. Houston, from 609 
B'way to N. R. 
18 Mercer 
38 Greene 
60 Wooster 
82 W. Broadway 
148 Macdougal 



236 Varick 
276 Hudson 
310 Greenwich 

328 Washington 
348 West 

West 3d, from 68i 
B'way, W. to 6th av 
9 Mercer 
29 Greene 

— Wooster 

57 W. Broadway 
77 Thompson 

— Sullivan 
111 Macdougal 

W. 4th, f'm 697 B'wa? 
W. to W. 13th 
11 Mercer 
31 Greene 
43 Wash. Sq. E. 

— Wooster 

— W. Broadway 

— Thompson 

— Sullivan 

— Macdougal 
151 6th av. 
193 Barrow 
231 W. 10th 
281 W. 11th 
319 W. 12th 
333 8th av. 

— Gansevoort 
W. 8th, f'm 8 5th av^ 

W. to 6th av. 
W. 9th, f'm 22 5th av. 

W. to 6th av. 
W. 10th, f'm 32 5ti6 
av., W. to N. R 

71 6th av. 
127 Greenwich a* 
153 Waverley PI. 

181 W. 4th 

209 Bleecker 

246 Hudson 

265 Greenwich 

279 Washington 
Weehawken 

307 West 
W. 11th, from 46 5ti 
av., W. to N. R. 
77 6th av. 

167 7th av. 
Greenwich ay. 

?13 Waverley PV 
253 W. 4th 
285 Bleecker 
297 Hudson 
309 Greenwich 
345 Washington 
375 West 
W. 12th, from 58 6itk 
av., W. to N. R= 
83 6th av. 
175 7th av. 
229 Greenwich av 
281 W. 4th 
293 8th av. _ 

329 Greenwich 
371 Washington 
401 West 

W. 13th, from 70 5th 
av.. W. to N. R. 

69 6th av, 
161 7th av. 
253 Greenwich av. 

W. 4th 

337 Hudson 
455 10th av. 

W, 14th. irsc^ 52 £tt 
av., W. to N. R. 
101 6th av. 



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201 7th av. 

301 8th av. 

401 9th av. 

501 10th av. 

601 11th av. 

— 13th av. 

North River 
All streets on the 
West side from 14th 
to 58th, inclusive, 
begin at Fifth av., 
run to the Hudson 
River and are num- 
bered similar to W. 
14th, a hundred 
numbers being used 
on each block. 
W. 59th, from Grand 
Circle, W. to N. R. 

359 Columbus av. 

— 9th av. 

— 10th av. 

— West End av. 

— 11th av. 

W. 60th, from 1855 

B'way, W. to N. R. 

101 Columbus av. 

201 Amsterdam av. 

301 West End av. 

W. 61st, f'm Central 

Park West to N. R. 

1 Central Pk. W. 

— Broadway 

101 Columbus av. 

201 Amsterdam av. 

301 West End av. 
All streets on the 
West side from W, 
61st to W. 109th 
street, inclusive, be- 
gin at Central Park 
West, and are num- 
bered similar to W. 
61st, a hundred 
numbers being used 
on each block. 
W. 110th (Cathedral 
Parkway), f'm 5th 
av. W. to Riverside 
av. 

— St. Nicholas av. 

— Lenox av. 

— 7th av. 

— 8th av. 

— Manhattan av. 

— Columbus av. 

— M'gside av. E. 
Morningside Pk 

— M'gside av. W. 

— Amsterdam av. 
547 Broadway 

W. Ulth, f'm 5th av,, 

W. to Riverside av. 

W. 112th, f'm 5th av.. 

W. to Riverside av. 

101 Leiiox ctf. 

105 St. Nicholas av 

201 7th av. 

301 8th av. 

329 Manhattan av. 

— M'g=i'i«« iV^. E. 

Momingsiue irark, 

401 M'gside aV. W. 

501 Amsterdam av. 

601 Broadway 



All streets from W. 
112th to W. 120th, 
inclusive, begin at 
5th av., run W. to 
Riverside av., and 
are numbered simi- 
lar to W. 112th 
W. 121st, from Mt. 
Morris Pk., W. to 
Riverside av. 
101 Lenox av. 
201 7th av. 
273 St. Nicholas av. 
301 8th av. 
317 Manhattan av. 
364 M'gside av. E. 
401 M'gside av. W. 
501 Amsterdam av. 
601 Broadway 
W. 122d, from Mount 
Morris Pk. to Riv- 
erside av. 
W. 123d, from Mount 
Morris Pk., to Riv- 
erside av. 
W. 124th, f'm 2002 5th 

av., W. to B'wav 
W. 125th, f'm 2020 5th 
av., W. to Clare- 
mont av. 
101 Lenox 
201 7th av. 
301 8th av. 
335 St. Nicholas av. 
401 Columbus av. 
413 Manhattan av. 
501 Amsterdam av. 
801 Broadway 
All streets from W. 
125th to W. 143d be- 
gin at 5th av., run 
W. to North River 
and are numbered 
similar to W. 125th 
W. 144th, f'm Harlem 
River, W. to N. R. 
101 Lenox av. 
201 7th av. 
301 8th av. 
315 Bradhurst av. 
411 Hamilton Ter. 
451 Convent av. 
501 Amsterdam av. 

— Hamilton PI. 
601 Broadway 

W. 145th, f'm Harlem 
River, W. to N. R. 
101 Lenox av. 
201 7th av. 
301 8th av 
317 Bradhurst av. 
345 Edgecomb av. 
401 St, Nicholas av. 
501 Amsterdarr: av. 
501 Amsierdam av. 
601 Broadway 

— 12th av. 

All streets from W. 
145th to W. 154th, 
begin at_ Harlem 
River and run W. 
to North River, and 
are numbered simi- 
lar to W. 145th 



W. 155th, f'm 7th av.. 
W. to North River 
201 7th av. 

— Macomb's La. 
301 8th av. 

— Bradhurst av. 
Harlem R. Drivew'y 

401 St. Nicholas PI 

— Edgecomb av. 
— St. Nicholas av. 
501 Amsterdam av. 
601 Broadway 

W. 156th, from 921 St. 
Nicholas av., W. to 
Broadway 
423 St. Nicholas av. 

V/. 157th, f'm Edge- 
comb Rd., W. to 
B'way 

W. 158th, f'm 957 St. 
Nicholas av., W. to 
North River 
525 Audubon av. 
601 Broadway 

W.159th, from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
Broadway 

W. 160th, from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
485 W. 129th 
Broadway 

W. 161st, from 2036 
Amsterdam av., W. 
to Broadway 

W. 162d from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
Amsterdam av. 

W. 163d, from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
Amsterdam av. 

W. 164th, from Edge- 
comb Road, Wo to 
Kingsbridge Road 

W. 165th, from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
North River. 

W. 166th, from 2138 
Amsterdam av., W. 
to Broadway 

W. 167th, from Edge- 
comb Road, W. to 
Kingsbridge Road 
W. 168th, from 2178 
Amsterdam av., W. 
to Broadwav 

W. 169th, from Am- 
sterdam av., W. to 
Broadway 

W. 170th, from Edge- 
comb Road W. to 
Ft. Washington av. 
W. 171st, from Am- 
sterdam av., W. to 
B'way 
All streets from W. 
171st to W. 190th be- 
gin at Amsterdam 
av. and run West 
to Broadway 
W. 201st, f'm Harlem 
River, \A\ to Am- 
sterdam av. 
All streets from W. 
201st to W. 210th be- 



gin at Harlem Lives 

and run W. to Am- 
sterdam av 
W. 211th, f'm tiarlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 212th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 213th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 214th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 215th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 216th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to B'way 
W. 218th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to I sham 
W. 219th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to Isham 
W. 220th, f'm Harlem 

River, W. to Sea- 

man av. 

White, from 117 W. 
Broadway, E. to 
Baxter 

White's PI., r. 214 W. 

18th. 

Whitehall, from 2 
Broadway, S. to 
East River 

Willet, fm 482 Grand. 
N. to E. Houston 

William, from 107 
Pearl, N.E. to 447 
Pearl 

6 Beaver 
44 Wall 
54 Pine 
64 Cedar 
78 Liberty 
82 Maiden Lane 
106 John 
140 Fulton 
168 Beekman 
180 Spruce 
206 Frankfort 
— H. William 
240 Duane 
244 New Chambers 
Winthrop PI., Greene, 
bet. Waverley PI 
and E. 8th 
Wooster, from 355 Ca 
nal, N. to W. 4th 
30 Grand 
54 Broome 
92 Spring 
128 Prince 
166 W. Houston 
194 Bleecker 
234 W. 3d 

Worth, f'm 72 Hud 
son, E. to Pk Rw 
26 W. Broadway 
62 Church 
— Broadway 
116 Elm 
134 Centre 

York, f'm 9 St. John' 
Lane, E. to Wes 
Broadway 



Ind 



ex. 



Academy of Music 63 
American Surety 10 
Appellate Court 71 
Aquarium 23 
Arthur 64 
Assay Office 42 
Astor House 48 
Bankers' Trust 40 
Barnard College 108 
Battery 23 
Beth- El 83 

Bethesda Fountain 85 
Bible House 121 
Boroughs 121 
Botanical Garden 115 
Bowery 121 
Bowling Green 32 
Bradford 36 
Breese 36 
Brevoort 62 
Bridges 57 
Broad Exchange 17 
Broad'vay Bend 62 
Bronx Park 115 
Bronx River 115 
Brooklyn 124 
Brooklyn Institute 125 
Carnegie 82 
Cars 129 
Castle Garden 24 
Castle Williams 100 
Cathedral St. John 109 
Cathedral St. Patrick 76 
Central Park 84 

Gates 84 

Fountain 85 

Mall 84 

Statues 85 

Obelisk 86 

Reservoir 8q 

Lakes 89 

Menagerie 89 
Chamber of Commerce46 



Churches 132 

City Hall 53 

City Hall Park 50 

Claremont 104 

Clark House 83 

Clearing House 45 

Columbia University 107 

Coney Island 125 

Conklin 64 

Consolidated Ex. 40 

Cooke 48 

Cooper Union 121 

Court House 54-56 

Criminal Court 54 

Croton Aqueduct 112 

Curb Market 40 

Custom House 30 

Delmonico's 75 

De Peyster 33 

Diana 72 

Dix Portrait 54 

Elevated Railways 129 

Elevators 12 

Ellis Island 23 

Emanu-El 74 

Emmett 48 

Ericsson 26 

Farragut 68 

Federal Hall 42 

Ferries 129 

Fifth Avenue Ti 

Fifth Avenue Bus 132 

Fireboat 26 

Flagstaff in Battery 2y 

Flatiron Building 66 

Fraunces' Tavern 123 

Fulton 38 

Garibaldi 73 

Gould, Helen 76 

Governor's Island 27 

Grace Church 61 

G'd Central Terminal 98 

Grant's Tomb 104 



Greeley loi 
Greenwood 124 
Hack Fares 133 
Hale 55 

Hall of Fame 114 
Hall of Records 5^ 
Hamilton 36 
Harlem River 112 
Herald Square 101 
High Bridge 112 
Hispanic Society 110 
Holley T2) 
Hotels 135 
Hudson Terminal ^ 
Hunt Memorial 82 
James Fountain 03 
Jefferson Statue 54 
John St. Church 123 
Jumel Mansion iij 
Kean 48 
Knowlton 108 
Lafayette 63 
Lawrence 36 
Leitch 108 
Liberty Statue 28 
Library 74 
Li Hung Chang lot 
Lincoln 54 
Lind 24 

Little Church T22 
Livingston 38 
Low 107 

McGowan's Pass 84 
Mac Nevin 48 
Madison Square 64 
Madison Sq. Garden 7s 
Manhattan Life Bldg. 9 
Mapes Memorial 108 
Martyrs' Monument 125 
Matthews 124 
Mayor's Room 54 
Metropolitan Club 80 
Metropolitan Tower 69 



INDEX 



Metropolitan Museum 91 
Millionaires' Oub 80 
Millionaires* Row 80 
Montgomery 47 
Morningside 107 
Morse 24 

Municipal Bldg. 53 
Murray Hill 72 
Navy Yard 125 
Mat. Hist. Museum 90 
Mewspaper Row 5c 
New York City 121 
Obelisk 86 
Ocean Parkway 125 
Palisades 109 
Parkhurst 64 
Park Row 50 
Park Row Bldg. 17 
Pennsylvania R. R. 120 
Pickbardt House 82 
Piers 128 
Plaza 78 

Plymouth Church 
Pollock 106 
Population 121 
Postoffice so 
Potter's Field 63 
Pratt Institute 125 
Prince of Wales 47 
Printing House Sq. 50 



Produce Exchange 33 
Prospect Park 124 
Railroads 126 
Randall y2) 
Riverside Drive 102 
Sailors' Harbor 7^ 
St. Mark's 122 
St. Paul's 47 
St. Thomas's 76 
Schurz Monument 108 
Sherman Statue 6 
Singer Bldg. 14 
Skyscrapers 9 
Soldiers & Sailors 103 
Speedway 112 
Standard Oil 13 
Staten Island 120 
Steamboats 127, 128 
Steamships 127 
Stock Exchange 40 
Street Directory 134 
Strawberry Hill 106 
Stuyvesant 122 
Sub-Treasury 41 
Subways 117 
Subway Stations 130 
Tammany Hall 63 
Teachers' College 108 
Theatres 134 
Times Bldg. loi 



Titanic Memorial 123 
Tract Society Bldg. 50 
Trinity Bldg. 15 
Trinity Church 34 
Trinity Churchyard 36 
Tunnels 119 
Union Club 76 
Union League 74 
Union Square 63 
Union Club 78 
Union Heights 114 
Van Arsdale 27 
Van Cortlandt Park 116 
Vanderbilt Houses 78 
Wall Street 40 
Washington y:^ 
Washington Arch 73 
Washington Bridge iifl 
Washington Square 73 
Washington Statues 42 
Watts 36 

Webb Academy 113 
Whitehall Boatmen 26 
Whitney House 81 
Windsor Arcade 75 
Wolfe, Miss C. L,, (^ 
Woolworth Building 3i 
Worth Monument 65 
Zoological Park 116 



ART GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS. 

American Art Galleries— 4 East 23d St. 

American Museum of Natural History— See index. 

American Water Color Society— For time and place of exhibitions, see daily papers. 

Brooklyn Institute— See index. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art- See index. 

New York Public Library— Paintings, books, prints, etc. 

National Academy of Design— For time and place of exhibition, see daily papers 

Van Cortlandt Mansion— See index. 

For current art exhibitions, and collections on view in galleries of dealers, con- 
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Clifton, Edwards, Niagara Inn, Empire, Tower, The Allen, The Watson, Niagara Club, 
University Club, Country Club and 100 representative families; Canadian side— The Clifton, 
Hospice The Restaurant, and 60 representative families— a high class clientele. 

A II information regarding hotels at Niagara Falls, side trips and xvhai to see. A ddress 
W. E. TUTTLE, Publisher "IN THE MIST," 2-4 Cataract House Block, Niagara Falls, N.Y. 

(Inclose postage for reply.) 



WHEN IN ATLANTIC CITY 

Ask for 




MUSEMENT 

WHERE TO GO 

AND 

WHAT TO SEE 

CHARLES SCHEUER, Editor 




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A critical and discriminating account of Private Schools 
as they are, their merits and demerits. Separate chap- 
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Coeducational, Music, Art, etc., and Summer Camps. 

Comparative Tables aid in making a comparison of relative cost, 
size, special features, etc. 

Introductory Chapters, telling of interesting developments in the 
school world, will prove of interest to all thoughtful parents as well 
as teachers. 

A Standard Annual of Reference of utmost importance to all 
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Our Educational Information Bureau supplementing the Hand- 
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No Fee. 

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A Humanized Baedeker, descriptive of Town and 
Country along the Routes of Automobile Travel. The 
only book that presents New England as a whole. 

8g6 pages, maps and illustrations . Round corners, gold 
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The Bible itself proves how universally honey has been recog- 
nized as a real food from time immemorial, by such quota- 
tions as this — 

Is. 7:15 — Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know 
how to refuse the evil and choose the good. 

Take this hint from the greatest history in the world. 

The Sweets-and-the-Child Problem 

Children must have sweets — their sweet tooth is not mere 
habit or a weakness, but a Nature-call. While sugar and 
ordinary syrups do answer the call for sweets they also de- 
mand a price in the tax they lay on stomach and kidneys. 
Honey confers the benefit without demanding payment — it is 
a food as well as a delicious sweet — it is wholesome — it aids 
digestion — it lays no tax on stomach, kidneys or teeth. 

AirlinE 

ABSOLUTELY f^Cl^^N S^^ PURE- 

Just as much better than ordinary, ''pick-up," unbrandcd honey as is 
any other branded well advertised article better than the old "bulk- 
goods" it has displaced in your pantry. Experience has made you 
demand brands for their assurance of uniformity and superiority of 
quality and for packing which preserves goodness, protects from con- 
tamination and prevents substitution. For the same reasons put 
AIRLINE Honey on your list of brands demanded. 

You can buy AIRLINE Comb Honey in airtight packages or AIR- 
LINE Extracted Honey in glass jars (several sizes) with patent 
easily removable tops, at good grocers. Served in individual packages 
on most all railroad dining cars, at leading hotels and restaurants. 
This in itself is a striking endorsement of AIRLINE quality — these 
people seek only the best and purest. 

The A. I. Root Company 

MEDINA, OHIO 

For nearly half a century a house devoted to fostering the culture of 
bees, the production of honey throughout the world and the advance- 
ment of the interests of beekeepers. Biggest producers of and dealers 
in beekeepers' supplies in America. Publishers of "Gleanings in Bee 
Culture." 



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things in New York. Also about 
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The Most Famous Amusement Park 

In The World 

HUNDREDS of thousands of people from all 
over the world visit Luna every year. Here 
in this $2,000,000 wonderland the most 
magnificent spectacles, the most daring feats of 
skill, the most novel and unique rides are gath- 
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quarter of the globe. 

No one who is within striking distance of New 
York City ever fails to see this most stupendous 
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are laughs, thrills and amazement at every turn. 
You are sure to enjoy yourself. It is in the heart 
of Coney Island and easily reached from the 
city by boat, trolley, subway, or elevated. 

LUNA 

CONEY ISLAND 

New York 



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The Artrio Angelus 

THE INCOMPARABLE REPRODUCING PIANO 

TTHE Artrio Angelus is the latest development of the world 
famous Angelus, introduced in 1895, first of all piano 
playing devices. It is the crowning achievement of over a 
quarter of a century's success in the player field. 

The Artrio Angelus reproduces with absolute fidelity and 
completeness the most diflScult and intricate compositions as 
played by the foremost pianists of the day. Among those who 
have recorded for the Artrio, some exclusively for this instru- 
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Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Tina Lerner, Herma Menth, Doris Madden, 
Beryl R'.ibinstein and Richard Epstein, together with many other 
artists of the highest rank. 

To-day is offered the perfected Artrio Angelus, the instru- 
ment that will play in your own home the interpretations of the 
world's greatest pianists, as they themselves would play for you 
if they were actually seated at your piano. 

THE ANGELUS PLAYER PIANO 

THE ARTRIO ANGELUS REPRODUCING PIANO 

THE ANGELUS ACTION 



THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY 

MERIDEN - . - - CONNECTICUT 

Business Established 1877 



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and customs, invite the tourist. 

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published by the Foster & Reynolds Co., hold an unique place among 
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GREAT LAKES CRUISE 

Via Great Lakes Transit Corporation's Steel Steamers 

JUNIATA OCTORARA TIONESTA 

"Finest in the World" "Ask Anyone Who Has Made the Trip" 



The ONLY THROUGH Steamers Buffalo to Duluth 
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Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton and Duluth. 

Orchestra Dancing 

Meals and berth included in fares. For complete 
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Travel Information Office, or 

J. F. CONDON, Gen. Pass. Agent 

Marine Bank Building 

BUFFALO, - - - NEW YORK 



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Hudson River 



The Most Charming Inland Water Trip on 
the American Continent. The Attractive 
Route for Summer Pleasure Travel to and 
from the Catskill Mountains, Saratoga and 
the North, Niagara Falls and the West. 

PALATIAL STEEL STEAMERS 
"Washington Irving" 
"Hendrick Hudson" 
"Albany" 
"Robert Fulton" 
"De Witt Clinton" 

Season, May 14 to Oct. 23 
For detail of services and one-d^gy out- 
ings, see published time-tables 

Tickets via "Day Line" on sale at alloffices. 
Through tickets reading via the New York 
Central or West Shore R.R. between Albany 
and New York in either direction, are also 
available by this line, thus affording tourists 
a convenient opportunity of viewing the mag- 
nificent scenery of the Hudson by daylight. 

HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE 

Desbrosses St. Pier, New York 

A. V. S. Olcott, General Manager 



I)y Daylight 



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40 West Forty-fifth Street 

(Near Fifth Avenue) 

NEW YORK CITY 

N ideal location for the traveler, on a 
quiet street, within five minutes' walk 
of forty theatres and all best stores; also 
convenient to all transportation lines. 
A modern, fire-proof hotel, having comforta- 
ble light rooms, with and without bath, 
single and double or en suite, at reasonable 
rates of $3.00 per day and up. 

Bool^let gladly sent on request 
Telephone, Vanderbilt 1300 JOHN P. TOLSON, Proprietor 




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THE GREEN WITCH 



Restaurant Francais 



Table d'Hote 



49 EAST 10th STREET 
LUNCHEON 



Wanamaker's WtW YORK. 
Phone Stuyvesant 5048 

50c. CHICKEN DINNER 85c. 

Home Made Desserts Our Specialty 
Closed Sundays —During July and August No Service on Saturday and Sunday 



GRACE^S GARRET 



'The meeting 



A COFFEE HOUSE located in Greenwich Village and known as 
place of interesting and interested people." 

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Shipping, Personal and Business Investigations, Confidential Information, etc._ All com- 
missions, smaller large, receive the same careiul attention throughout America and all 
Northern European countries. Reasonable fees depending on service performed. 

Wire, write or call for details— 

W. H. SPERRY GRACE C. GODWIN 

58 Washington Square, New York City 







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of practical assistance to thousands, and are indispensable to one who would see 
with appreciation the places they describe. 

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HUDSON RIVER NIGHT LINES 

NEW YORK-ALBANY-TROY 

World' s largest river 
steamers. Music, 
dancing, restaurant. 
Steamers leave New 
York at 6 p. m., Al- 
bany 9 p. m. Due 
Albany or New York 
6 o'clock following 
morning. Direct rail 
connections to all 
points North and 
The New and Beautiful "Berkshire" South. 

G. B. AIKMAN, Traffic Manager 

HUDSON NAVIGATION CO., Pier 32 N. R., New York 

"THE SEARCHLIGHT ROUTE** 




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(ALL THAT THE NAME IMPLIES) 



127-129 West 53d Street, - - New York City 
GARAGE SUPPLIES 

TWIN-SIX CARS 




FOR HIRE 



With thoroughly experienced, careful drivers, familiar with 
New York and all sections of the surrounding country. 

TOURING CARS, 

LIMOUSINES, 

LANDAULE T S, 

By Hour, Day, 

Week or Month 

Day and Night Service 

TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 6280 




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Trip De Luxe — New York Sight-Seeing Yachts 

"TOURIST" and "CASWELL" 



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Leave Battery Park Pier, 
near South Ferry, every day 
at 10.30 A. M. and 2.30 
P. M. All around New 
York Harbor and Manhat- 
tan Island in about 2% 
hours. All points of inter- 
est explained by lecturer. 

Tickets, $1.50 

Up the East River, under 
all bridges, past the Navy 
Yard, Blackwell's Island, 
Hell Gate, through Harlem 
Ship Canal, and down the 
Hudson, past Palisades, Grant's Tomb, Sky Scrapers of New York, Ocean Steamers, War- 
ships, Emigrant Station, Statue of Liberty, Castle William, and all other points of interest 
to starting point. Send for Map A. 

CAPT. BUDD GOODWIN, Manager 




One of the Sight-Seeing Yachts. Carries 300 passengers with safety 
and comfort. The new and commodious Yacht Tourist carries 500 
passengers; one of the most attractive and safest steamers in New 
York Harbor. Refreshments served. Lady attendant. 



Battery Park Pier, New York City 



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Statue (jf Liberty Boats 

Steamers leave Battery Park 
Landing. Summer Schedule—' 
Every half-hour, from 9 A. M- 
to 5 P. M. 

Fare, 3S cents round trip 

MILLS BROS. 
Telephone : Bowling Green 7783 



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see and how to see it to the best ad- 
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Excursion Steamers for Charter 

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l>ETI^OrT ST. LOUIS 

1000 Rooms 1000 Bal hs 650 Rooms 650 Baths 

Every room has private bath, circulating- icewater and 
many other unusual conveniences. Morning paper 
delivered free to every guest-room. Club breakfasts. 

IN NEW YORK 

Hotel Pennsylvania 

Statler-operated 

The Largest Hotel in the World 

2200 Rooms 2200 Baths 

Seventh Ave., 32nd to 33rd Sts., 
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ORGANIZED 1853 
MAIN OFFICE: 

William and Beaver Streets, 

' Capital and Surplus, 

BRANCHES 



New York City 



$15,000,000 



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Astor Place and Eighth Street 
ASTORIA BRANCH 
75 Fulton Ave, Astcria, Boro. of Queens 

AUDUBON BRANCH 

Broadway and 166th Street 
BROADWAY BRANCH 

Broadway and Spring Street 
BRONX BRANCH 

375 East 149th Street 
BROOKLYN BRANCH 

Court and Joralemon Streets. Brooklyn 
CHATHAM SQUARE BRANCH 

Park Row and Worth Street 
DYCKMAN BRANCH 

207th Street and Post Avenue 
EAST SIDE BRANCH 

Norfolk and Grand Streets 
EIGHTY- SIXTH STREET BRANCH 

126 East 86th Street 
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Avenue D and 10th Street 
FIFTH AVENUE BRANCH 

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55th Street and Broadway 
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19 and 21 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn 

FIJTSHING BRANCH 

116 Main St., Flushing, Boro. of Queens 

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FORTY- SECOND STREET BRANCH 

303 West 42d Street 
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7 East 42d Street 
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Greenpoint and Manhattan Aves., Bklyn. 

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125th Street and Lenox Avenue 

HUDSON RIVER BRANCH 

Columbus Avenue and 72d Street 



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Borough of Queens 
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Grove and West Fourth Streets 

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Hamilton Ave. and Summit St., Bklyn. 
STATEN ISLAND BRANCH 

New Brighton, Staten Island 
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252 Stein way Avenue, Astoria, Borough 

of Queens 

TERMINAL BRANCH 
Dey and Chvirch Streets 

TREMONT BRANCH 
Tremont and Arthur Avenues 

TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET BRANCH 

12 West 28th Street 

UNION SQUARE BRANCH 

34 Union Square, East 

UNIVERSITY BRANCH 
Broadway and 113th Street 

WASHINGTON BRANCH 
Broadway and Murray Street 

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS BRANCH 
Amsterdam Avenue and 143d Street 



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MR. BUSINESS MAN 

It Pays To Advertise In The 

PHILLIPS BUSINESS DIRECTORY 

OF NEW YORK 

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leakages in any business. 

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in reputable channels. 



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portunities. 

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10. Publicity, Reciprocity and Co-operation 
will help both you and us. 



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Temple Court Building, - - - New York City 

Telephone. Cortlandt 4067 



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All Over the Country 

The Famous Hotels of America Are Iden- 
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in the 

HOTEL RED BOOK 

Copies of the latest Edition are found on all cars of the Pullman Service; 
also in the Parlor and Sleeping Cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul] 
The Great Northern, the Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk Railway 
Systems, and on Ocean and Coastwise Steamships. 

Most Hotel Men Keep It on File. Ask for It 
More than 500 Hotels Advertise in It Annually 

Published Annually in July PviCe, $4,00 Express Paid 

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No European Trip is Complete 
without a Visit to 

SWITZERLAND 



THE land of enchantment and contrasts, where all 
tastes and fancies can be satisfied and where there 
is perfect enjoyment in store for the rest-seeking, 
the tourist, the sportsman, the scholar or lover of 
mediaeval art. 

Full and up-to-date information relative to hotel rates 
(which since 1914 only show an average increase of 
60^o) will be gladly furnished by our Information 
Bureau, as well as any suggestions or data you may 
desire relative to tours, sport, residence and education in 
any part of Switzerland. 

We do not sell tours or tickets, our sole purpose being 
to answer questions. You are therefore cordially in- 
vited to take full advantage of our free service, which 
also includes useful Swiss travel literature handed free of 
charge on personal application, or sent by mail upon 
receipt of 10c. to cover postage. i^sk for the "Special 
Collection." 



Official Agency of the Swiss Federal Railroads 

241 FIFTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY 

LONDON PARIS 

1 lb Regent St.. Waterloo PL. S.W. 20 Rue Lafayette 



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^Ais IJear CANADA Calls l/oul 

Vacation Land of Ideal Summer Climate 

Hay fever is unknown in this clear, pine-and-balsam scented air. Un- 
limited territory to choose from — cloud-tipped mountains and rugged 
foothills inviting exploration; wide valleys of woods and streams and wild 
flowers; turquoise lakes with sandy beaches; the restful relaxation of camp 
life or the luxury of the finest hotels. 

In Canada^ your Ideal Vacatinn is realized; Algonquin Park — Muskoka 
Lakes — Great Lakes Cruise — Georgian Bay — Lake of Bays — Kawartha 
Lakes — Timagami — Nipigon — Quetico — Minaki — Lower St. Lawrence and 
Maritime Provinces. Fishing, boating, bathing, golf. A summer play- 
ground in the great out-of-doors. 

Jasper Park, Alberta, and Moimt Robson Park, British Columbia, em- 
brace the scenic mountain wonders of the Dominion. 

For full information write 

Canadian National or Grand Trunk Railways 



at any of the following addresses: 

BOSTON-294 Washington St. 

BUFFALO— 1019 Chamber of 
Commerce Building. 

CHICAGO— 64 West Adams St. 

CINCINNATI— Traction Building. 

DETROIT— 527 Majestic Building. 

KANSAS CITY— 710 Railway 
Exchange Building. 



Ask for Booklet G. 

MINNEAPOLIS— 518 Second Avenue 

South. 
NEW YORK— 1270 Broadway. 
PITTSBURGH-505 Park Building. 

ST. LOUIS— 305 Merchants Laclede 
Building. 

SAN FRANCISCO-689 Market St. 

SEATTLE— 902 Second Ave. 



Fishing, Hunting and Camping 

Real hshing and hunting in virgin streams and unspoiled big game country 
in NOVA SCOTIA, NEW BRUNSWICK, QUEBEC, ONTARIO, 
ALBERTA and BRITISH COLUMBIA. For full information write 
G. T. Bell, Passenger Traffic Manager, Grand Trunk Railway System, 
Montreal, Canada, or H. H, Melanson, Passenger Traffic Manager, 
Canadian National Railways, Toronto, Canada. 



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Above All Things Flavor 

TODAY, when you hear the word "Beech-Nut," your mental 
vision is not of a beech-tree or of gathered beech-nuts. It is a 
dream of things that are good to eat. 

You seem to taste such delicious flavors as Beech-Nut Bacon 
— or Beech-Nut Peanut Butter — Beech-Nut Tomato Catsup or 
Chili Sauce. Or perhaps Beech-Nut Jams, Jellies, or Marmalades, 
or Beech-Nut Chewing Gum, Mints, or Ginger Ale. 

For, today, the word Beech-Nut means to most people — 
Flavor. 

And this is because every process in the making of every 
Beech-Nut product has but one aim — flavor. 

In this list of Beech-Nut Foods of Finest Flavor, there may 
be one that you have not yet tasted. Read the list, and make up your 
mind to order some from your grocer, to try. 



Foods of Finest Flavor 



BEECH-NUT BACON 
BEECH-NUT SLICED BEEF 
BEECH-NUT PEANUT BUTTER 
BEECH-NUT PORK AND BEANS 
BEECH-NUT TOMATO CATSUP 
BEECH-NUT CHILI SAUCE 
BEECH-NUT OSCAR'S SAUCE 
BEECH-NUT CIDER VINEGAR 
BEECH-NUT PREPARED MUSTARD 
BEECH-NUT MACARONI 
BEECHNUT SPAGHETTI 
BEECH-NUT MACARONI ELBOWS 

BEECH-NUT JAMS 

Strawberry, Red Raspberry, Blackberry, 
Peach, Damson Plum 



BEECH-NUT JELLIES 
Grape, Red Currant, Crab- Apple, Quince, 
Spitzenberg Apple, Black Currant 

BEECH-NUT JELLIED FRUITS 

BEECH-NUT MARMALADES 
Orange and Grapefruit 
BEECH-NUT PRESERVES 

Cherry and Pineapple 

BEECH-NUT GINGER ALE 

BEECH-NUT CHEWING GUM 

BEECH-NUT MINTS 
Mint, Wintergreen, Clove, Licorice, Cinnamon 

BEECH-NUT CANDIES 

Lime Drops, Lemon Drops, Caramels, 

Peanut Bars 

BEECH-NUT JAFFEE 

The Rational Mealtime Drink 



BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY, Canajoharie, N. Y. 



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DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. 






THE BALSAMS 

Open June to October 






pARTHEST North and 
distinctive among White 
Mountain Hotels. New fire- 
proof unit of one hundred 
rooms, all with bath. Best of 
auto boulevards. Fireproof 
garage. Superior golf course 
and club house. Pishing and 
unusual outdoor attractions. 
Elevation 2000 feet. 






Descriptive Literature 
on Request 

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Hotel Marion, Lake George^N.Y. 

The Most Beautiful of the Lake Resorts 



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Managed. 

Rooms Single and En Suite 

with Private Bath. 
Elevator, Electric Bells, 
Electric and Gas Lighting. 
8 Stops by the Lake Steam- 
ers Daily Directly in Front 
of Hotel. 
New Garage and Good 
Liverv Connected with 

Hotel. 

A Delightful Place to 

Spend a Vacation. 

Pure^ountain Air. 

Full View of Lake. 

Fishing and Boating. 



Milk and Vegetables Produced upon nearby Farms. -:- Pure Natural Spring Water. 
The New Lake George Country Club, Golf, Tennis and Regattas in full view of Hotel. 

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Books That Have Helped Thousands 

THE STANDARD GUIDES 

published by the Foster & Reynolds Co., hold an unique place among 
travel handbooks. Intelligently written and profusely illustrated, they 
have been of practical assistance to thousands, and are indispensable 
to one who would see with appreciation the places they describe. A 
Standard Guide is the best traveling companion. 

The series comprises New York, Washington, Florida, Cuba, Chicago. 

Price, 50 cents each 

Sold everywhere. Mailed on receipt of price by the 

FOSTER & REYNOLDS COMPANY 

BUSH BDILDING 
130 West 42d Street New York City 



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Galen Hall 



Atlantic City 
New Jersey 

Hotel and Sanatorium 



YEARS of experience have shown us our comforts are appreciated; also 
our exceptional table and service. We have been compelled to add 
many private baths (having fresh and salt water) and running water is now 
in most of our other rooms. 

A Graduate Dietitian has charge of all special diets. 
Our Department of Tonic and Curative Baths (in which can be had 
baths for pleasure too) has been enlarged and improved. 

Only trained operators, both for ladies and gentlemen, employed. 

ALWAYS OPEN 



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^HE finest bathing beach in America. Its natural gentle slope makes it per- 
tectly safe and wonderfully enjoyable. Splendid deep sea and still water 
nshing. l^nie boating and motoring-. Always cool. Five mile Boardwalk lined 
with refined amusernents and excellent shops. Homelike hotels. Cosy cottages 
and apartments fully furnished, for rent by the season. For beautifully illustrated 
tolder and detailed information write today to 

W. COURTRIGHT SMITH, - Secretary Board of Trade 

Wildwood, N. J. 



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THE JEFFERSON "^^SH? 

Ideally situated in the most desirable section of Richmond and within five 
minutes' walk of the business center and shopping district. Every comfort 

for the Tourist. Every 
convenience for the 
Traveling Man. Rooms 
single and en suite. 
Turkish and Roman 
baths. Spacious Sample 
Rooms. 

The historic points of 
iiiterest in and around 
Richmond make the 
city a desirable stop-over 
place for tourists. 
European Plan 




GOLF PRIVILEGES 

Splendid Course 



] O. F. WEISIGER, Manager 



THE MONTICELLO 

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 

Tidewater Virginia's Famous and Norfolk's Finest Hotel 

HTHE MONTICELLO, one of 
America's leading Hotels, contains 
everything modern and necessary to 
the comfort of the traveler, whether on 
business or pleasure bent. 

RESTAURANTS OF EXCELLENCE 




FINEST BALLROOM, COMMITTEE AND CONFERENCE ROOMS 

IN THE SOUTH 

Handsome Tourist Apartments and Suites de Luxe 

CHARLES H. CONSOLVO, President WM. J. QUINN, Jr., Manager 



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The St. James Hotel 




Cor. Penn. Ave. and 6th St. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

It is admirably situated in the 
center of the Capital City and 
is most convenient to the public 
buildings, business houses and 
places of amusement. Electric 
Light — Steam Heat — Local and 
Long Distance Telephone 
From Union Station all Penn- 
sylvania Ave. and 14th Street 
cars pass the hotel. 

RATES 

Single room back, $1.50 to $2.00. 

Single room, fronting the park, 
•west on Sixth Street and Pennsyl- 
vania Ave., $3.00 and $4.50. 

Single room, with private bath, 
$4.00 and $5.00. 

Suites, with private bath, fronting 
Pennsylvania Avenue, $6.00, $7.00 
■ and $8.00. 

Each additional person in same 
room, $1.00 extra. 

A SPECIAL FEATURE 

Club Breakfast served~6 to 11 A. M. 
Noonday Luncheon 12 to 2.30 P. M. 
Cafeteria. 




THE HAMILTON 

14th and K Streets, N.W. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

A select F amily and Transient Hotel where 
you can feel at home. Choice location, 
opposite Franl'lin Park. Convenient to all 
public buildings and points of interest. 
Thoroughly comfortg^ble. Good table. 
American plan. Rates, $4.00 per day and 
up. For further particulars, booklet, etc., 
address IRVING O. BALL, Prop. 



WE POINT WITH PRIDE. 

The publishers of the Standard Guide take pride in the quality 
of advertising in these pages. It is of high class Aroughout. 
The line is strictly drawn to the rigid exclusion not only of the 
objectionable but of the questionable. The advertisers are re- 
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Pennsylvania Avenue, 18th and H Streets 

HOTEL POWHATAN 

Two blocks west of White House. One block from State, War and 
Navy Buildings, and U. S. Commerce Building. 



New 



Fireproof 



European 



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RATES 



Bedroom, detached bath, $2. SO. Bedroom, private bath, $3.50 and up. 

Suites: parlor and one or more bedrooms with bath. 

Special weekly and monthly rates. 

Restaurant a la carte. Beautiful Roof Garden where meals are served 

in summer. Music and Dancing. 

Write for booklet and general information to 

HOTEL POWH ATAN 

E. C. OWEN, Manager 



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HOTEL SEMINOLE 

Jacksonville'.. Only Steel Fireproof Hotel 
Cor. Hogan and Forsyth Streets 

Opposite U. S. Post Office 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



Absolutely Fireproof 



European Plan 



Fine Restaurants, Elaborate a la Carte Service, also Table d' Hote Meals. 
Club breakfasts from 50c. up; noonday lunch 75c., evening dinner $1.50 

For the tourist who stops oyer at Jacksonville, the location of the Seminole is ideal 



250 Rooms 

175 Baths 

Three Cafes 



Fine Music 




RATES : 

Without Bath 

$3.00 and up 

per day 

With Bath 

$4.00 and up 

per day 



UCITA INVESTMENT CO., Owners and Proprietors 

J. B. POUND, President CHAS. G. DAY, Manager 

HOTEL PATTEN, Chattanooga; HOTEL SAVANNAH, Savannah; HOTEL 
HENRY WATTERSON, Louisville, under same management and ownership. 

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Sast &)ast^7foteh 

ofiheS'faglerSysiem 



The North's first thought when 
Winter comes, is that stretch 
of blossoming palm - fringed 
shore — 500 miles along the 
East Coast of Florida — with 
its sunny skies, blue seas, 
balmy, perfumed air, and the 
smartest social life of the con- 
tinent. All outdoor sports in 
perfection. Golf, tennis, surf 
bathing, yachting, idling in the 
sun, flirting under the palms; 
and the best resort hotels in 
the world. 



CTT A f T^l TCXIMI7 PONCEDELEON, Robert Murray, Mgr. 
O 1 . AUOUO 1 llNCi ALCAZAR, - Wm. McAuliffe, Mgr. 

ORMOND On-the-Halifax ™= ?,!'K£;..„„. m.,. 

O A I IV/I K17 A CV\ ROYAL POINCIANA, - H. E. Bemis, Mgr. 
r/\L.lVl I>Il./\^n. BREAKERS. - - Leland Sterry, Mgr. 

MIAMI ROYAL PALM .... Jos. P. Greaves, Mgr. 

LONG KEY LONG KEY FISHING CAMP, L. P. Schutt, Mgr. 

ITPV \A7FQT CAS A MARINA (European Plan) 

I\.IL I W ILO I L. P. Schutt, Mgr. 

NA^^^AIT Rnh»m»C THE COLONIAL, J. W. Greene, Mgr. 
I'^l/AOO/^nj, OanamaS royal VICTORIA.J.W.Creene, Mgr. 

Florida East Coast Hotel Co. 

243 Fifth Avenue, New York 



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Finest BIG GAME Fishin^m theWoiid 



Come down to Tarpon Inn off 
the Florida West Coast. Here 
in the very midst of the world- 
famous Tarpon Waters you 
can hook a Tarpon anywhere 
from fifty to two hundred 
pounds and land him, too, if 
you're man enough. 



Golf, too, when you like, on 
the "sportiest nine-hole course 
in Florida." And the Inn— it's 
the cosiest in the South; run by 
Sportsmen for Sportsmen, more 
like a club than a hotel. Make 
your reservations now — these 
next few months are the best 
for Tarpon. 



BOOKLET ON REQUEST 

TARPON 
INN 

USEPPA ISLAND LEE COUNTY FLORIDA 



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THE 



GRUNEWALD 



NEW ORLEANS 




EUROPEAN PLAN 



ACCOMMODATIONS FOR 
1200 GUESTS 



BEST HOTEL SOUTH 

OPERATING THREE RESTAURANTS 

"THE CAVE" 

NEW ORLEANS* MOST UNIQUE ATTRACTION 



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Hand- Woven Homespun Suitings 

FOR MEN AND WOMEN 

Bihmore Homespuns are the best suitings on the market today and are the refinement of 
hand-weaving. We have always clung to the name Biltmore Homespun, because no other name 
represents the honest, old-fashioned method of hand-weaving which is one of the foundations o f 
quality in our fabric. They are closely woven, and in single, double and overcoat weaves as wel 1 
as Summer Crashes. There are over 150 patterns. All are hand-dyed with vegetable and alizarine 
dyes — no aniline being used — and are strictly hand-woven. We buy our wool here in the moun- 
tains just as it is sheared from healthy, full-grown sheep. We use no lamb's wool, because cloth 
made from lamb's wool shrinks indefinitely. We use absolutely nothing but new sheep's wool in 
making Bitmore Homespuns. 

The wool is thoroughly washed in boiHng Ivory Soapsuds, and dyed by hand in the raw state, 
with the very finest guaranteed alizarine and vegetable dyes. It is then carded, spun and hand- 
woven on looms of our own make. We then scour and "full" it for two hours in the old-fashioned 
wav in hct Ivory Soap suds, rinse and dry it on tenter hooks in the sun. Thus, in addition to al 1 
the' shrinking and cleansing, we produce a cloth almost as well sterilized as a surgical dressing. 
There is no method known to science whereby a more substantial, more beautiful or more fadeless 
cloth can be made. 

Biltmore Homespuns are not experiments ; they have been on the market for years. Were 
originated by Mrs. George W. VanderbiU on the famous Bihmore Estate, where they were manu- 
factured until 1917. 1 he Biltmore Industries were purchased entire by Grove Park Inn, Inc., in 
that year and are operated by the same workers, and every piece of homespun is absolutely guar- 
anteed. It is guaranteed to keep its shape equal to any woolen cloth made. Some of our most 
successful weaves are the blues and the browns. We have made the French Army Sky Blue for 
a number of years, and it is perfect in color. Some of the wealthiest and most discriminating 
adies in the United Staies have suits of this Sky Blue (No. 49). Our Brilliant Blue (lighter than 
navy), flecked with little fibres of white, is not equaled outside of Biltmore Homespun. 

The browns are all that could be desired for softness of tone, yet full of strength of character. 
Number 1 16 is a most wonderful dark brown, finely carded, but showing the little fibres of color 
in a way that cannot be produced by machine methods. 

"Autumn" Mixtures no doubt are the most beautiful of all. These are made by mixing as 
many as eight or nine colors of wool, blending as nearly as possible the shades of the leaves of 
trees in Autumn. Number 5, for instance, one of oui oldest weaves, having been or» the market 
nearly fifteen years, is a mixture of Brilliant Fast Forest Green, Madder Red, Walnut Root Brown, 
Golden Yellow, Hickory Bark Yellow, Pale Alizarine Blue, White, and a small trace of Sky 
Purple. The finished cloth is as nearly the color of our mountains in October as could be 
imagined. Jet Black is made from Extract of Logwood and comes in the regular weight. We 
make beautiful weaves of black and white in "Pepper and Salt" double weave white warp, 
double weave black warp, and so on. Oxford Grey (almost black flecked 
with white) and Steel Grey with black knots are made especially heavy 
and are for coats. We are glad to send samples, but request that they be 
returned when not needed, as we send them large enough to 
give an idea of the cloth, and to do so they cost us about ten 
cents each. The price of single weaves, single width (28 
inches), is $3.50 per yard, and it takes about seven yards 
to a lady's suit. Coat weights, heavy, $4.50 per yard. Six 
yards for a coat of average length. Summer crashes, all colors, 
$2.25 per yard. 

Biltmore Industries 

V 

GROVE PARK INN, ASHEVILLE, N.C. 

Estabhshed 1901 
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CHOCOLATES 

Appropriate Acceptable 



Packed in genuine Redwood and shipped 
direct from the factory to dealers, these 
quality confections are sought by those 
who demand the best. 




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STEINWAY 

The Instrument of the Immortals 

LISZT, greatest of all pianists, preferred the Steinway. 
J Wacrner, Berlioz, Rubinstein and a host of master- 
musicians esteemed it more highly than any other instru- 
ment It is these traditions that have inspired Steinway 
achievement and raised this piano to its artistic pre- 
eminence which is today recognized throughout the world. 
Catalogue and Prices on application 

STEINWAY ®. SONS 

STEINWAY HALL 
107-109 East 14th Street - ■ - New York City 

Subway Express Stations at the Door 
V Represented by the Foremost Dealers Everywhere 




CHOCOLATES 



The 
Sampler Messenger Boy 
is a True Globe Trotter. 



You can buy Whitman* s 
everywhere, including — 

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Price $S0 'with 

carrying case 




For 

Business 

Trip 

or 

Vacation 

oroNA 

The Personal Writing Machine 

CIX pound Corona is a handy, helpful 

*^ companion. Takes care of your 

correspondence, cleans up odds and ends 

that must be done and makes you free 

from desk and office worries. Corona is 

never in the way when not busy, but is 

instantly ready at need. Use it on the train 

or boat, or in your hotel or boarding place. 

Branches and Agencies all over the World 

Built by 

CORONA TYPEWRITER COMPANY 

Groton, N. Y. 



Fold it up — Take it wit h you — Typewrite anywhere 

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Ever Trainsick? 

If you are troubled with nausea or headache while traveling on Train, 

Trolley, Automobile, 
Boat, Flying Machine 
or other conveyance, use 

MothersiU's 
Seasick Remedy 

The only dependable 
preventive of Nausea 

A preventive and correc- 
tive endorsed by highest 
authorities and used by 
travelers the world over. 
Mothersill's contains no habit-forming drugs. 

Sold by leading druggists everywhere 

MOTHERSILL REMEDY CO., Ltd., Detroit, Mich. 

LONDON. NEW YORK. MILAN, AMSTERDAM, BOMBAY, ALEXANDRIA, 
MONTREAL, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, WELLINGTON, N. Z. 




^avel ^Migazine 

TS published in connection with the Ask Mr. Foster Travel Information Service. 

-*• It is a natural outgrowth of that system and is designed to be a new agency 

for serving the traveling public. 

€f Its field is a most attractive one. It has to do with the pleasant places of the 

earth, those which by charm of scenery, benignancy of climate, or novelty of life 

and customs, invite the tourist. 

^ Its purpose is to make better known the characteristics of health and pleasure 

resorts, and to encourage a larger participation in their benefits and enjoyments. 

^ Subscriptions are received at the Ask Mr. Foster offices, or by the publishers, 

THE FOSTER & REYNOLDS COMPANY 

130 West 42d Street New York City 

Your Subscription is invited 



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FOR SALE EVERYWHERE 
Convenient Pocket Editions for Tourists 

Indexed Pocket Maps of Every State 

The maps are large scale, showing^ clearly all cities, towns, vil- 
lages, railroads, counties, mountains, national parks, lakes, 
creeks, islands, etc. Each map is folded to convenient pocket 
size and attached to booklet containing complete alphabetical 
index to all places on the map, giving location, new census pop- 
ulation and information regarding railroad, express, mail and 
telegraph facilities of each. Main highways shown clearly. The 
most accurate and dependable maps for the tourist and traveler. 
Price 35c. each 

Official Auto Trails Maps 

America's Most Popular Road Guides 
Featuring marked automobile routes with explanations of markers. 

Published in twenty-one convenient touring districts. 
Each district map is inserted in a pocket-sized booklet contain- 
ing reliable information concerning the better hotels, garages 
and service stations, as well as city maps showing the best 
routes tiirough the larger towns. Tiie map shows the key — 
Simply follow the painted poles. Price 35c. each. 

Black and White Mileage Maps 

With Hotel Directories 

of all States. Showing all important places, with railroad lines 
and railroad mileage between cities, towns and junctions. Folded 
to pocket size with indexes giving location and new census pop- 
ulation of cities and towns, their principal industries and prod- 
ucts, express, telegraph and mail service. Also hotels and 
rates. Indispensable to the traveler. Price 35c. each. 

Foreign Country Maps 

A comprehensive series of maps of all countries showing sub- 
divisions, cities, towns, railroads, waterways, mountains, etc. 
Indexes giving location and population. Price 35c. each. 




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Take the Blue Book 

for your 
Motoring Guide 

Wherever your car can take you, the 
Blue Book route is shortest, quickest 
and happiest. 

— Happiest, because there is no guess work. You know exactly which 
are the good roads, hotels, garages and service stations. To know 
these important facts is to travel worry-free over the comfort route. 

The Blue Book You may plan a month s trip into the remotest 
Tells You How corner of America. Or you may suddenly 

decide on Sunday afternoon to take the family 
for dinner at some road-house famous for its chicken and waffles. 
Wherever you want to go, the information is plainly indicated. 

The Blue Book L^kes and streams whose finny folk are plentiful 
Points the Wav ^"*^ game; farming country where the summer's 

heat is swept away by mountain breezes; beaches 
famous for briny delicacies and health-building bathing; golf and 
tennis resorts; mountain timberland, where the khaki shirt of the 
morning is the dinner shirt at night — all these are revealed in a hun- 
dred variations of combinations. 

The Rlue Rook Consult it for vacation plans. Eliminate the 

Shows Tt All dusty heat and perspiration of a summer railroad 

trip and time-tables and standing in the hot, smelly 

hall of the dining car for your turn to eat. Travel the Blue Book 

route of pure cool air, and sleep where it pleases you best. 

Choose Your ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ volume covering the section in 
Blue Book Now ! fi'J^'^ y"" "'""' .'° ^'^"f ^ake sure it is the 

1921 revised edition, l^or sale at all _^f«i"AL 
Mr. Foster Information Offices and the leading dealers in books, 
stationery, automobile accessories; also by department stores, garages 
and the principal news stands in every city. 

Price everywhere, $4 per volume 

The Automobile Blue Book Publishing 

Company 

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THE PLEASURE 

OF TRAVELING 

NO one thing has contributed 
more to the pleasure of traveling — 
in the United States, in Europe, in the 
Orient or in South America — than the 
Travelers' Cheques of the American 
Bankers Association, popularly known as 
"A. B. A." Cheques. 




BANKS don't want their customers to be 
placed in embarassing positions while traveling, 
so they arrange to help them to have as pleasant a 
trip as money can provide by selling to them 



♦ X T^ X *» .American ^-^» 

A- J5 'A A.^lS.n Cheques 

the BEST funds for travelers 



They are safe, convenient and comfort-promoting 



Write for full information to the 

BANKERS TRUST COMPANY 

New York City 



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POHLSON GIFT NEWS 

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Sent direct or for sale by the leading Department 
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The ELY SCHOOL for GIRLS 

GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT 



IN all departments the 
school offers students 
a superior grade of teach- 
ing in small classes, so that 
each student has oppor- 
tunity for daily recitation 
and personal attention from 
teachers who are college 
women, or highly trained 
specialists. College prepar- 
ation. General courses. 



THE attention of parents is 
called to the school's un- 
equalled record of health. Situ- 
ated twenty-eight miles from 
New York City, two hundred 
feet above Long Island Sound, 
having i t s private artesian 
wells, sewage disposal, bath- 
room adjoining every bedroom, 
a herd of Jersey cows, complete 
sanitation is secured. 



THE BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL 

{Incorporated) 

FOR GIRLS BIRMINGHAM, PA. 

Founded in 1853, this school 
believes in and exemplifies 
the motto, "A Sound Mind 
in a Sound Body." It is 
beautifully situated in a high, 
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running hot and cold water. 

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Physical Director. Ojjen air sleeping porch. Rooms with private bnths. 
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The Madison Square Hotel 

Facing Madison Square Park 

37 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 

"THE HOME ON THE SQUARE" 

Every Room witli Private Bath. Entirely screened throughout. 

RATES 

EUROPEAN PLAN AMERICAN PLAN 

(without meals) (with meals) 

$2.50 per day up (1) |6.00 per day up (1) 

3.00 per day up (2) 8 00 per day up (2) 

Single and Double Rooms or en Suite 
Its easy access to everything combined with a quiet homelike atmosphere appeals 
particularly to families with children and ladies traveling alone. Our represen- 
tative will meet parties at any station or pier and conduct them to Hotel (with- 
out charge). 

Guide Map of New York on Request 

The Langwell Hotel 

Just off Broadway at Times Square 

123-129 West 44th STREET, NEW YORK 

Located in the heart of the metropolis. Convenient to all R. R. Stations, 
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Single Room, Running Water ..... $2.00 per day 

Double " " ..... 3.00 

Single " Private Bath ..... 4.00 *' 

Double " " ..... 5.00 " 

Apartments of two to eight rooms at proportionate rates. 
Special discount by week, month or year 

Guide Map of New York mailed on request 

The Westminster Hotel 

"A Home for the Discriminating" 

420 WEST 116th STREET, NEW YORK 

In the educational section of New York, 
Overlooking Columbia University. 

A modern fireproof apartment hotel located in the finest residential 
section of New York, Convenient to all lines of transportation and 
caters only to people of refinement desiring a quiet, homelike atmosphere. 

Accommodations range from one room and bath to twelve rooms 
and six baths. All rooms are outside and receive an abundance 
of light, sunshine and air. 

RATES :— American Plan (including meals) 
Single Room, Private Bath, one person . , . $5.00 per day up 

Double ** " " two " ... 8.00 

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, one person . . . 7.00 " 

" two " ... 10.00 

Special discount for two weeks or over 
Elevation insures cool comfortable rooms in summer. 
An ideal Home for the "Kiddies". 

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Will qualify any ambitious, intelligent young man or woman for 
a paying position in a single year (or less). If you want to get a 
start and can afford the preparation which assures promotion, 
Eastman can help you. Finishing vocational courses 
in Accounting. Banking, Civil Service, Penmanship, 
Stenography, Typewriting, Business English, Ad- 
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efficient, and faithful teachers. Exceptional oppor- 
tunities for self-help and advancement to capable 
young people of high character. Individual training for persons who 
need to be interested, encouraged, taught how to study, and made self 
reliant. Special rates to good musicians. Moderate expenses. New 
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term begins July 

CLEMENT C. GAINES, M. A., LL.D. 



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The publishers of the Standard Guide take pride in the quality 
of advertising in these pageSo It is of high class throughout. 
The line is strictly drawn to the rigid exclusion not only of the 
objectionable but of the questionable. The advertisers are re- 
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\X7EST indies, Central and South 
" ^ Anmerica — the wonder country of 
the Western Hemisphere reached by 
the Caribbean Sea Tours of the Great 
White Fleet. 

No other section of the World holds so 
much to interest and attract Americans. 

Cruises 15 to 23 da3^s. Full informa- 
tion on request. 

UNITED-FKUIT-COMPANY 

STEAMSHIP-SERVICE 
General Offices: 131 State Street, Boston, Mass. 

Passenger Traffic Department: 
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Wherever You Travel 

You will find Airline Honey — Your 

Choice of 

Comb Honey, Extracted Honey, Cream of Honey 

On Steamship, Dining Car or in your Hotel 

Order Airline Individual Service Comb Honey or 
Airline Individual Service Extracted Honey 

When you reach home. Nationally 
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Can be had at your grocers 

Wherever You Travel and Recreate 

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In Apiaries equipped with Root Quality Supplies 

Wherever You Live 

You can keep bees for pleasure and profit or for profit alone. 

Root bee supplies will supply every need for every climate. 
Branch companies and dealers thruout the country supply 

real service. 

Send for booklets on Honey or Bees or both. 

THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY 

Medina, - = - - Ohio 




BRANCH OFFICE! 

NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA 
INDIANAPOLIS ST. PAUL 

NEW ORLEANS 



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THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY OF IOWA, Council Bluffs, Iowa 

THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY OF TEXAS, San Antonio, Texas 

THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles and San Francisco 

THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY OF CANADA, Ltd., Ingersoll, Ontario 



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Watches for Travelers 



VV7ALTHAM Convertible 
^ Bracelet Watch, with 15 
or 17 jewel movement, cased 
in solid gold. 

A most convenient and adap- 
table watch, which may be worn with a bracelet, 
on a chain, fob or chatelaine. 



The Waltham master 
craftsmen have achieved 
grace of line and exceed- 
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has made Waltham 
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The Colonial A will 
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Canada: 189 St. James St., Montreal 



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Don't Tempt Fate Any Longer! 

One man in Seven is killed or injured each year 
by accident. 

Your chances are no better than your neighbor's. 

The fact that you feel safe and take every possible 
precaution does not relieve you of danger. 

The man who can't be injured or disabled by acci- 
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or the nation that never goes to war. 

For your own sake — for your wife's sake, for your children's sake — now while you can 

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long as you live if you're disabled 
by a railway, steamship, or burn- 
ing building accident; $25 a week 
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accidental death or loss of two 
limbs, two eyes, or one limb and 
one eye. Add $500 to $1,000 to this 
for every year you renew the in- 
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above for loss of one limb or one 
eye. 

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be too late. 



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Madison Square 
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Brooklyn Branch Office — 174 Montague Street, Brooklyn 



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AMERICAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS 

A Guidebook for Parents 

A critical and discriminating account of Private Schools 
as they are, their merits and demerits. Separate chap- 
ters on schools of various types. Boys', Girls*, Military, 
Coeducational, Music, Art, etc., and Summer Camps. 

Comparative Tables aid in making a comparison of relative cost, 
size, special features, etc. 

Introductory Chapters, telling of interesting developments in the 
school world, will prove of interest to all thoughtful parents as well 
as teachers. 

A Standard Annual of Reference of utmost importance to all 
interested in Secondary Education. It has received the highest enco- 
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Our Educational Information Bureau supplementing the Hand- 
book furnishes unprejudiced, reliable Advice to Parents. Write us. 
No Fee. 

Fourth edition, IQl8, re'vised and enlarged, yoo pages, 
crimson silk cloth, round corners, gold stamped, $2.^0. 



HANDBOOK OF NEW ENGUND 

A Humanized Baedeker, descriptive of Town and 
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only book that presents New England as a whole. 

8g6 pages, maps and illustrations. Round corners, gold 
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Ask Mr. Foster. He will show or sell. Circulars on request. 

PORTER E. SARGENT 
50 Congress Street BOSTON, MASS. 

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GALEN HALL in the MOUNTAINS 

Wernersville, Pa. 

A high class hotel, situated on the southeast slope of South 
Mountain at an altitude of 1,000 feet. Beautiful scenery, 
fine motor roads, new garage. Good music. Golf. Tennis. 
Long distance telephones in rooms. A very fine therapeutic 
bath and massage department in connection. One and one- 
half hours from Philadelphia, Reading Railroad ; four hours 
from New York, Central Railroad of New Jersey. Through 
Pullmans. 

New York Office, - - 243 Fifth Avenue 

HOWARD M. WING, Manager 




THE STANDARD GUIDES 

published by the Foster & Reynolds Co., hold an unique place among 
travel handbooks. Intelligently written and profusely illustrated, they 
have been of practical assistance to thousands, and are indispensable 
to one who would see with appreciation the places they describe. A 
Standard Guide is the best traveling; companion. 

The series comprises New York, Washington, Florida, Cuba, Chicago. 

Price, 50 cents each 

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The Most Famous Amusement Park 

In The World 

HUNDREDS of thousands of people from all 
over the world visit Luna every year. Here 
in this $2,000,000 wonderland the most 
magnificent spectacles, the most daring feats of 
skill, the most novel and unique rides are gath- 
ered together at a lavish expense, from every 
quarter of the globe. 

No one who is within striking distance of New 
York City ever fails to see this most stupendous 
attraction of the largest city in the world. There 
are laughs, thrills and amazement at every turn. 
You are sure to enjoy yourself. It is in the heart 
of Coney Island and easily reached from the 
city by boat, trolley, subway, or elevated. 

LUNA 

CONEY ISLAND 

New York 



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THE 

ARTISTIC ANGELUS 

REPRODUCING PIANO 

THE ARTRIO ANGELUS is the latest develop- 
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your piano. 

The ARTRIO ANGELUS is installed in certain 
makes of well-known pianos of high merit and reputation. 
Furnished in both grand and upright models. 



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THE STANDARD GUIDES 

published by the Foster & Reynolds Co., hold an unique place 
among travel handbooks. Intelligently written and profusely 
illustrated, they have been of practical assistance to thousands, 
and are indispensable to one who would see with appreciation 
the places they describe. A Standard Guide is the best traveling 
companion. 

The series comprises New York, Washington, florida, Cuba, 
Chicago. 

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TS published in connection witli the Ask Mr. Foster Travel Information 

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